Demultiplexer with blazed waveguide sidewall grating and sub-wavelength grating structure

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 17616-17625

  Bock, Przemek J ^a,b   Cheben, Pavel ^b   Delâge, André ^b   Schmid, Jens H ^b   Xu, Dan Xia ^b   Janz, Siegfried ^b   Hall, Trevor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; DIFFRACTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

DIFFRACTED LIGHT; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; OPERATIONAL BANDWIDTH; PERFORMANCE APPROACH; SECOND ORDER DIFFRACTION; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAVEGUIDE; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; WAVELENGTH DISPERSIVE;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 55349089234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017616     Document Type: Article

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