Design of a photonic crystal tapered coupler with different section lengths based on multimode interference and mode matching

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 3 PART 1, 2008, Pages 1822-1827

  Lu, Ming Feng ^a,b   Huang, Yang Tung ^b  

^a MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coupling; Mode matching; Multimode interference; Photonic crystal; Tapered coupler

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC LOSSES; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POWDERS; WAVEGUIDES;

DIFFERENT SECTIONS; EFFICIENT COUPLINGS; IMAGING; MODE CONVERTERS; MODE MATCHING; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCES; OPTIMAL LENGTHS; PC WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; SCATTERING LOSSES; TAPER LENGTHS; TAPERED COUPLER;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 54249117825     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: 13474065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.47.1822     Document Type: Article

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