Fabrication-tolerant active-passive integration scheme for vertically coupled microring resonator

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 108-116

  Tee, Chyng Wen ^a,b   Williams, Kevin A ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Churchill College   (United Kingdom)

^d INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^e Photonics Research Laboratory

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation; Fiber coupling; Large scale integration; Multimode waveguides; Optical coupling; Optical diffraction; Optical fiber coupling; Optical planar wave guides; Optical resonators; Semiconductor device fabrication

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPAGATION; FIBER COUPLING; LARGE-SCALE INTEGRATION; MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL COUPLING; OPTICAL DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVE-GUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE FABRICATION;

LINEAR EQUATIONS; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 32944457798     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2005.862947     Document Type: Article

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