Sharp bending of on-chip silicon bragg cladding waveguide with light guiding in low index core materials

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1345-1348

  Yi, Yasha ^b   Akiyama, Shoji ^a,c   Bermel, Peter ^b   Duan, Xiaoman ^d   Kimerling, Lionel C ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SHIN ETSU CHEMICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Bragg layers; Low index core; Optical waveguide

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; POLYSILICON; SILICON; SILICON NITRIDE;

BRAGG LAYERS; CLADDING BILAYERS; INDEX CORE MATERIALS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33845606703     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.884067     Document Type: Article

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