Scaling down photonic waveguide devices on the SOI platform

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5117, Issue , 2003, Pages 147-156

  Cheben, Pavel ^a   Xu, Dan Xia ^a   Janz, Siegfried ^a   Delâge, André ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Crosstalk; Demultiplexers; Insertion loss; Silicon on insulator; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CROSSTALK; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INSERTION LOSSES; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING; PHOTONIC WAVEGUIDE; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT WAVELENGTH SHIFT; TRAPEZOIDAL WAVEGUIDE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0042329202     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.498795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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