Low loss etchless silicon photonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4752-4757

  Cardenas, Jaime ^a   Poitras, Carl B ^a   Robinson, Jacob T ^a,b   Preston, Kyle ^a   Chen, Long ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONIC DEVICES; SILICON;

BENDING RADIUS; LOW BENDING LOSS; PROPAGATION LOSS; SELECTIVE OXIDATION; SILICON ETCHING; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 62549129448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004752     Document Type: Article

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