Ultrasmall overlapped arrayed-waveguide grating based on Si nanowire waveguides for dense wavelength division demultiplexing

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1301-1305

  Dai, Daoxin ^b,c   He, Sailing ^a,b,c,d  

^a IEEE   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG); Nanowire; Overlapped; Silicon; Ultrasmall; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXERS; FREE PROPAGATION REGIONS (FPR); NANOWIRES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION DEMULTIPLEXING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMULTIPLEXING; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SILICON;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33845623723     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.879583     Document Type: Article

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