Air trench bends and splitters for dense optical integration in low index contrast

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2271-2277

  Akiyama, Shoji ^a   Popovič, Miloš A ^b   Rakich, Peter T ^a   Wada, Kazumi ^a   Michel, Jürgen ^a   Haus, Hermann A ^b   Ippen, Erich P ^b   Kimerling, Lionel C ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air trench bend; Bend loss; Cladding taper; Enhanced lateral mode confinement; Low index contrast; Silica waveguide

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

AIR TRENCH BEND; BEND LOSS; CLADDING TAPER; ENHANCED LATERAL MODE CONFINEMENT; LOW INDEX CONTRAST; SILICA WAVEGUIDE;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 23144444287     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.850047     Document Type: Article

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