Large reduction of singlemode-fibre coupling loss in 1.5% Δ planar lightwave circuits using spot-size converters

Electronics Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 72-74

  Itoh, M ^a   Saida, T ^a   Hida, Y ^a   Ishii, M ^a   Inoue, Y ^a   Hibino, Y ^a   Sugita, A ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INSERTION LOSSES; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING; COUPLING LOSS; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUITS; SHADOW ETCHING TECHNIQUE; SPOT SIZE CONVERTERS;

FREQUENCY CONVERTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0037122931     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20020059     Document Type: Article

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