High efficiency diffraction grating coupler for multimode optical interconnect

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6185, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Franc, Janyce ^a   Destouches, Nathalie ^a   Blanc, Daniele ^a   Pommier, Jean Claude ^a   Tonchev, Svetlen ^b   Van Steenberge, Geert ^c   Hendrickx, Nina ^c   Last, Arndt ^d   Parriaux, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grating coupler; Micro optics; Multimode waveguide; Optical interconnect

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); METAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

GRATING COUPLERS; METAL GRATINGS; MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDING LAYERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33746685082     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.666710     Document Type: Conference Paper

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