Input-grating couplers for narrow Gaussian beam: Influence of groove depth

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 26, 2004, Pages 6481-6490

  Peng, Chubing ^a   Challener, William A ^a  

^a SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MICROSTRUCTURE; MODULATION; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CORRUGATION; GAUSSIAN BEAM INCIDENCE; MICROSTRUCTURE DEVICES; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 11244313930     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.006481     Document Type: Article

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