Compact grating coupler between vertically stacked silicon-on-insulator waveguides

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5357, Issue , 2004, Pages 135-142

  Dong, Po ^a   Kirk, Andrew G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Grating coupler; Integrated optics; Modeling; Optical coupling; Optical waveguide; Propagation and waveguiding; Second order grating; Stacked waveguides

Indexed keywords

GRATING COUPLERS; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE MODELING; PROPAGATION AND WAVEGUIDING; SECOND-ORDER GRATINGS; STACKED WAVEGUIDES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC INSULATORS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; NOTCH FILTERS; PHOTONS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 4344570536     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.527965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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