Coupling optical fibres with thin semiconductor waveguides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4997, Issue , 2003, Pages 171-180

  Masanovic, Goran Z ^a   Passaro, Vittorio M N ^b   Reed, Graham T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Grating coupler; Integrated optics; Optical coupling; Optical waveguides; Silicon on insulator

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

SEMICONDUCTOR WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0041859739     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.479446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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