High-efficiency light coupling in a submicrometric silicon-on-insulator waveguide

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 31, 2000, Pages 5773-5777

  Orobtchouk, Régis ^a,b   Layadi, Abdelhalim ^a   Gualous, Hamid ^a,c   Pascal, Daniel ^a   Koster, Alain ^a   Laval, Suzanne ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; RESONANCE; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0001600811     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005773     Document Type: Article

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