Spectroscopy of a tapered-fiber photonic crystal waveguide coupler

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 10738-10747

  Sarkissian, Raymond ^a   Farrell, Stephen ^a   O'Brien, John D ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; FABRY-PEROT CAVITY; MODELING AND MEASUREMENT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SILICON MEMBRANES; SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUE; TAPERED FIBER; WAVEGUIDE RESONATORS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 67649271263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010738     Document Type: Article

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