Enhanced light coupling in sub-wavelength single-mode silicon on insulator waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 6939-6945

  Pang, C ^a   Gesuele, F ^a   Bruyant, A ^a   Blaize, S ^a   Lerondel, G ^a   Royer, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE TROYES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; MICROLENSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; COUPLING FACTOR; EFFICIENT COUPLING; FDTD SIMULATIONS; LIGHT COUPLINGS; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAVEGUIDE; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 66549127052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.006939     Document Type: Article

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