Thin-film stack based integrated GRIN coupler with aberration-free focusing and super-high NA for efficient fiber-to-nanophotonic-chip coupling

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4574-4589

  Wang, Qian ^a   Huang, Yingyan ^c   Loh, Ter Hoe ^a   Ng, Doris Keh Ting ^a   Ho, Seng Tiong ^a,b  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c OptoNet Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ALGORITHMS; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; LENSES; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; THIN FILM DEVICES;

BEAM SIZE; CHIP COUPLING; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; FOCAL PLANE; GRIN LENS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH NA; HIGH NUMERICAL APERTURES; NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SPATIAL BEAMS; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THIN-FILM STACKS;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 77749304362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004574     Document Type: Article

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