Improved performance of a silicon-on-insulator-based multimode interference coupler by using taper structures

Optics Communications

Volumn 253, Issue 4-6, 2005, Pages 276-282

  Shi, Yaocheng ^a,b   Dai, Daoxin ^a,b   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Modal propagation analysis; Multimode interference; Self imaging; Silicon on insulator; Tapered structure; Vertical modes

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PERFORMANCE; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

MODAL PROPAGATION ANALYSIS; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI); SELF-IMAGING; SILICON ON INSULATOR (SOI); TAPERED STRUCTURE; VERTICAL MODES;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 24144437464     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2005.04.078     Document Type: Article

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