A simple miniature optical spectrometer with a planar waveguide grating coupler in combination with a plano-convex lens

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 4064-4072

  Chaganti, Kalyani ^a   Salakhutdinov, Ildar ^a   Avrutsky, Ivan ^a   Auner, Gregory W ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SPECTROMETERS; WAVEGUIDES;

FOCUSING LENS; OPTICAL PARTS; OPTICAL SPECTROMETERS; PLANO-CONVEX LENS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

LENSES;

EID: 33751298891     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004064     Document Type: Article

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