Cantilever couplers for intra-chip coupling to silicon photonic integrated circuits

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4565-4574

  Peng, Sun ^a   Reano, Ronald M ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NANOCANTILEVERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY; POLARIZATION; TIMING CIRCUITS;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DEFLECTION ANGLES; SILICON PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TE POLARIZATIONS; THERMAL-ANNEALING; TM POLARIZATION; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 62549090552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004565     Document Type: Article

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