Low-loss coupler between fiber and waveguide based on silicon-on-insulator slot waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 32, 2007, Pages 7858-7861

  Yan, Liu ^a   Jinzhong, Yu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CABLES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

MISMATCH LOSS; OPTICAL CIRCUITS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 38849112504     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.007858     Document Type: Article

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