Patent 11409047 was granted and assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute on August, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An optical coupling method and apparatus are disclosed. The optical coupling method improve the speed of optical alignment between an optical fiber and a grating coupler (GC) of an optical coupling apparatus for a characteristic test of a silicon photonic integrated circuit (Si-PIC) chip by using a reflective grating couplers disposed on the Si-PIC chip.