Fabrication and characterization of straight and compact S-bend optical waveguides on a silicon-on-insulator platform

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 31, 2009, Pages

  Navalakhe, Rupesh Kumar ^a   Dasgupta, Nandita ^a   Das, Bijoy Krishna ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION; WAVEGUIDES;

BEND WAVEGUIDE; FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; NEAR-FIELD OUTPUTS; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT; SILICON-ON- INSULATORS (SOI); SILICON-ON-INSULATOR PLATFORMS; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDES; TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70449638588     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.00G125     Document Type: Article

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