A broad-band waveguide grating coupler with a subwavelength grating mirror

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-15

  Cheben, Pavel ^a   Janz, Siegfried ^a   Xu, Dan Xia ^a   Lamontagne, Boris ^a   Delâge, André ^a   Tanev, Stoyan ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b Photonics and Biophotonics Vitesse Reskilling   (Canada)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain; Silicon on insulator (SOI) waveguides; Subwavelength grating; Waveguide grating coupler

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MIRRORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; FREE PROPAGATING BEAMS; SUBWAVELENGTH GRATING; WAVEGUIDE GRATING COUPLER;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 33747252113     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.860037     Document Type: Article

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