The impact of metallic contacts on propagation losses of an underlying photonic crystal waveguide

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7031, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kaspar, Peter ^a   Kappeler, Roman ^a   Karouta, Fouad ^b   Robin, Franck ^a   Strasser, Patric ^a   Jäckel, Heinz ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active; Electrical contact; Indium phosphide; Optical loss; Photonic crystal; SOA; W3 waveguide

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; POWDERS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

ACTIVE; ACTIVE DEVICES; CARRIER INJECTIONS; CONTACT STRIPS; ELECTRICAL CONTACT; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; INP/INGAASP; LOSS MEASUREMENTS; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; METAL CONTACTS; METALLIC CONTACTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPTICAL MODE PROPAGATIONS; OPTICAL POWER TRANSMISSIONS; PASSIVE WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL (; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; PROPAGATION LOSSES; SOA; W3 WAVEGUIDE; WAVE EXPANSION METHODS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 56249098377     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.793687     Document Type: Conference Paper

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