Efficient coupling to chalcogenide glass photonic crystal waveguides via silica optical fiber nanowires

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1070-1078

  Grillet, Christian ^a   Smith, Cameron ^a   Freeman, Darren ^b   Madden, Steve ^b   Luther Davies, Barry ^b   Magi, Eric C ^a   Moss, David J ^a   Eggleton, Benjamin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED CIRCUITS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL CABLES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SILICA;

CHALCOGENIDE; GLASS PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; LOGIC FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL FIBER NANOWIRES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 32644457821     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001070     Document Type: Article

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