Experimental demonstration of high coupling efficiency between wide ridge waveguides and single-mode photonic crystal waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2272-2274

  Sanchis, P ^a   Garcia J ^a   Marti J ^a   Bogaerts, W ^b   Dumon, P ^b   Taillaert, D ^b   Baets, R ^b   Wiaux, V ^c   Wouters, J ^c   Beckx, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LITHOGRAPHY; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; COUPLING LOSSES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (PHC); SINGLE MODE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; TAPERS; WIDE RIDGE WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 5444258749     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.833915     Document Type: Article

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