High efficiency compact grating coupler for integrated optical circuits

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6351 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Feng, Junbo ^a   Zhou, Zhiping ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary; Blazed grating; Coupler

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ETCHING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTIMIZATION;

BINARY; BLAZED GRATING COUPLERS; FIBER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 33845645915     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.688732     Document Type: Conference Paper

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