Optimization of finite-length input volume holographic grating couplers illuminated by finite-width incident beams

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 4435-4446

  Wu, Shun Der ^a   Glytsis, Elias N ^b   Gaylord, Thomas K ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTEGRATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

COUPLED TRANSMISSION LINE ANALYSIS; GRATING COUPLERS; SURFACE-RELIEF GRATING COUPLERS (SRGC); VOLUME HOLOGRAPHIC GRATING COUPLERS (VHGC);

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 23344448355     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.004435     Document Type: Article

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