Cascade wide-angle Y-junction 1 × 16 optical power splitter based on silicon wire waveguides on silicon-on-insulator

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21456-21461

  Tao, S H ^a   Fang, Q ^a   Song, J F ^a,b   Yu, M B ^a   Lo, G Q ^a   Kwong, D L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

EXCESS LOSS; OPTICAL POWER; OPTICAL POWER SPLITTERS; SHORT PROPAGATION; SILICON WIRE WAVEGUIDES; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR SUBSTRATES; SPLITTING ANGLES; Y-JUNCTIONS;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 58149121153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021456     Document Type: Article

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