Diffraction efficiency of a grating coupler for an array illuminator

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 3891-3898

  Nakaya, Tetsuji ^a,c   Katoh, Yasufumi ^a,d   Kubota, Toshihiro ^a   Takeda, Mitsuo ^b  

^a KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO LTD   (Japan)

^d Dai Nippon Screen Manufacturing Company   (Japan)

Author keywords

Array illuminator; Diffraction efficiency; Grating coupler; Optical computing

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFRACTION; FABRICATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ARRAY ILLUMINATOR; COLLIMATED BEAMS; COUPLED WAVE THEORY; DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; GRATING COUPLER; GROOVE DEPTH; OPTICAL COMPUTING;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0030196692     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.003891     Document Type: Article

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