A very short planar silica spot-size converter using a nonperiodic segmented waveguide

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1680-1685

  Spühler, Michael M ^a,b,c,e,f   Offrein, Bert J ^d,g   Bona, Gian Luca ^d,h   Germann, Roland ^d,i,j   Massarek, Ilana ^b,d,k,l,m   Erni, Daniel ^a,b,c,f,n,o  

^a IEEE   (Switzerland)

^b OSA   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Ecl d'Ingénieurs de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

^f OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^h SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^j Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society)   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^l Italtel SpA   (Italy)

^m Institute of Physics

ⁿ University College London ^*

^o Lab Electromagnetic Flds M   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

BPM; Coupling; Gratings; Planar waveguides; SiON; Spot size converter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DESIGN; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTIMIZATION; SILICA;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032164713     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.712252     Document Type: Article

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