Tapered rib adiabatic following fiber couplers in etched GaAs materials for monolithic spot-size transformation

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1361-1370

  Vawter, G Allen ^a,b,c,d   Sullivan, Charles T ^a,d   Wendt, Joel R ^a,d   Smith, Robert E ^a   Hou, Hong Q ^a,d   Klem, John F ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Sandia National Labratories ^*  (United States)

^d IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiabatic transformation; Alignment tolerant structures; Coupling efficiency; Mode expanders; Optical waveguide couplers; Optoelectronic devices; Semiconductor quantum well lasers

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; EFFICIENCY; LASER MODES; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

MODE EXPANDERS;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 0031366433     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.658790     Document Type: Article

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