Input waveguide grating couplers designed for a desired wavelength and polarization response

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2818-2825

  Backlund, Johan ^a   Bengtsson, Jörgen ^a   Carlström, Carl Fredrik ^b   Larsson, Anders ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOCUSING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

INPUT WAVEGUIDE GRATING COUPLERS; POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT COUPLERS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0037140642     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.002818     Document Type: Article

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