Preliminary experimental results of a dual grating-assisted directional coupler on SOI

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5730, Issue , 2005, Pages 173-180

  Masanovic, Goran Z ^a   Reed, Graham T ^a   Passaro, Vittorio M N ^b   Headley, William R ^a   Timotijevic, Branislav ^a   Atta, Raghied M H ^c   Josey, Mike ^d   Ensell, Graham ^d   Evans, Alan G R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d Innos Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRON BEAMS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS;

GRATING COUPLER; OPTICAL COUPLING; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON PHOTONICS;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 21844440796     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.591460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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