Experimental study of waveguide grating couplers with parallelogramic tooth profiles

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3101-3106

  Li, Ming ^a   Sheard, Stephen J ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blazed grating; Grating coupler; Integrated optics; Optical waveguide

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038279863     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601047     Document Type: Article

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