The comparison between the graded photonic crystal coupler and various couplers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2570-2574

  Chien, Hung Ta ^a   Lee, Chengkuo ^b,c   Chiu, Hua Kung ^a   Hsu, Kuei Chu ^d   Chen, Chii Chang ^a   Ho, Ja An Annie ^e   Chou, Chien ^f  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^d CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical couplers

Indexed keywords

COUPLING METHODS; GRADED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; OPTICAL COUPLERS; PARABOLIC MIRRORS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; WAVEGUIDE TAPERS;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; WAVEGUIDES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 67651233469     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2012271     Document Type: Article

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