Embedded slanted grating for vertical coupling between fibers and silicon-on-insulator planar waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1884-1886

  Wang, Bin ^a   Jiang, Jianhua ^a   Nordin, Gregory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gratings; Integrated optics; Optical fiber coupling; Waveguide components

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

SILICON-ON-INSULATOR WAVEGUIDES; SLANTED GRATING COUPLERS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 27144537718     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.853236     Document Type: Article

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