Micro-optically assisted high-index waveguide coupling

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1831-1838

  Michaelis, Dirk ^a   Wächter, Christoph ^a   Burger, Sven ^b   Zschiedrich, Lin ^b   Bräuer, Andreas ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS;

ANGULAR-SPECTRUM PROPAGATION; PHASE-MATCHING CRITERIA; PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 33645768799     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.001831     Document Type: Review

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