Symmetric profile beams from waveguides with asymmetric grating couplers

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2554-2558

  Touam, Tahar ^a   Najafi, S Iraj ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diffraction grating; Integrated optics; Waveguide grating coupler

Indexed keywords

EID: 5844380071     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.002554     Document Type: Article

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