Compact and highly-efficient polarization independent vertical resonant couplers for active-passive monolithic integration

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 8350-8358

  Galarza, Marko ^a   Van Thourhout, Dries ^b   Baets, Roel ^b   Lopez Amo, Manuel ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION; WAVEGUIDES;

ACTIVE WAVEGUIDES; ADIABATIC DESIGNS; FABRICATION TOLERANCES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION; PASSIVE WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT; RESONANT COUPLERS; VERTICAL COUPLING;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 45249093624     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008350     Document Type: Article

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