Compact slanted grating couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3313-3326

  Wang, Bin ^a   Jiang, Jianhua ^a   Nordin, Gregory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATED OPTIC DEVICES; MICROSTRUCTURE DEVICES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SLANTED GRATING COUPLERS (SLGC);

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 4644344762     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003313     Document Type: Article

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