Planar concave grating demultiplexer fabricated on a nanophotonic silicon-on-insulator platform

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1269-1275

  Brouckaert, Joost ^a   Bogaerts, Wim ^a   Dumon, Pieter ^a   Van Thourhout, Dries ^a   Baets, Roel ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Demultiplexing; Diffraction; Gratings; Nanophotonics; Silicon on insulator (SOI)

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DEMULTIPLEXING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTONICS; WSI CIRCUITS;

NANOPHOTONICS; PLANAR CONCAVE GRATING DEMULTIPLEXERS;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34248524425     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.893025     Document Type: Article

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