Impedance matching vertical optical waveguide couplers for dense high index contrast circuits

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 11682-11690

  Sun, Rong ^a   Beals, Mark ^a   Pomerene, Andrew ^b   Cheng, Jing ^a   Hong, Ching Yin ^a   Kimerling, Lionel ^a   Michel, Jurgen ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIMING CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; POWER OSCILLATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX VARIATIONS; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; TAPER STRUCTURE; VERTICAL WAVEGUIDE COUPLER; WAVEGUIDE MATERIALS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 49149088116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011682     Document Type: Article

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