Modeling and numerical analysis for silicon-on-insulator rib waveguide corners

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 4610-4618

  Sun, DeGui ^a,b   Li, Xiaoqi ^c,d   Wong, Dongxia ^e   Hu, Yuan ^b   Luo, Fangliang ^a,f   Hall, Trevor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b CHANGCHUN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e D and T Photonics Inc   (Canada)

^f Hebei Energy College of Vocation and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Effective reflecting interface; Optical transfer efficiency; Silicon on insulator (SOI) rib waveguide; Waveguide corner mirror

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE TOOLS; CORNER ANGLE; CORNER MIRRORS; DEFLECTION OF LIGHT; EFFECTIVE REFLECTING INTERFACE; GOOS-HANCHEN EFFECT; HIGHLY INTEGRATED; MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES; MIRROR PLANE; OPTICAL TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; PRECISE POSITIONING; RIB WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAVEGUIDE; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI) RIB WAVEGUIDE; SOI WAVEGUIDES; THEORETICAL MODELS; TILT ANGLE; TRANSFER EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MICROSENSORS; MIRRORS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 70049087706     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2025609     Document Type: Article

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