An out-of-plane grating coupler for efficient butt-coupling between compact planar waveguides and single-mode fibers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 949-955

  Taillaert, Dirk ^a,b   Bogaerts, Wim ^a,b   Bienstman, Peter ^a,b   Krauss, Thomas F ^c   Van Daele, Peter ^b   Moerman, Ingrid ^a,b   Verstuyft, Steven ^b   De Mesel, Kurt ^b   Baets, Roel ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical planar waveguide components; Waveguide coupler

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHOD; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; GRATING COUPLER; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; SECOND-ORDER GRATING;

ALUMINA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 0036649386     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2002.1017613     Document Type: Article

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