Losses in single-mode silicon-on-insulator strip waveguides and bends

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1622-1631

  Vlasov, Yurii A ^a   McNab, Sharee J ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SILICON WAFERS;

PHOTONIC INTEGREATED CIRCUITS; PROPAGATION LOSSES; SINGLE MODE SILICON WAVEGUIDES; TRANSMISSION SPECTRA;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 2942708124     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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