Efficient fiber coupler for vertical silicon slot waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22571-22577

  Sun, Haishan ^a   Chen, Antao ^a   Szep, Attila ^b   Dalton, Larry R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SILICON WAFERS; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLING LOSS; FIBER COUPLERS; FIBER COUPLINGS; MODE SIZE CONVERTER; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY PROCESS; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAFERS; SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER; SLOT WAVEGUIDE;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 72049089082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022571     Document Type: Article

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