Focusing waveguide grating coupler using a diffractive doublet

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 4349-4353

  Sheard, Stephen ^a   Prewett, Philip ^b   Zhu, Jianguo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffractive optics; Focusing grating coupler; Integrated optics; Photolithography

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; FABRICATION; FOCUSING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICS; PERFORMANCE; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

DIFFRACTIVE DOUBLET; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; DIRECT WRITE ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FOCUSING WAVEGUIDE GRATING COUPLER;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0031192014     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.004349     Document Type: Article

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