Compact double-grating coupler between vertically stacked silicon-on-insulator waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 35, 2005, Pages 7540-7547

  Dong, Po ^a   Kirk, Andrew G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PHOTONS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; EIGENMODE EXPANSION METHOD; FABRY-PEROT RESONANCE; GRATING COUPLERS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 30844463484     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007540     Document Type: Article

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