Coupling technique for efficient interfacing between silica waveguides and planar photonic crystal circuits

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 36, 2004, Pages 6656-6663

  Chau, Yuan Fong ^a   Yang, Tzong Jer ^b   Lee, Win Der ^a  

^a LEE MING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY GAP; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; SILICA;

COUPLING STRUCTURES; PLANAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS (PPC); SILICA WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 12344252860     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.006656     Document Type: Article

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