Photonic crystal lens for coupling two waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 3722-3730

  Kotlyar, Margarita I ^a   Triandaphilov, Yanis R ^a   Kovalev, Alexey A ^a   Soifer, Victor A ^a   Kotlyar, Maria V ^b   O'faolain, Liam ^b  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SOURCES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; FOCAL SPOT SIZE; LIGHT INTENSITY; NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; OFF-AXIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 67749113395     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.003722     Document Type: Article

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