Efficient planar fiber-to-chip coupler based on two-stage adiabatic evolution

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15790-15806

  Khilo, Anatol ^a   Popović, Miloš A ^b   Araghchini, Mohammad ^a   Kärtner, Franz X ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

ADIABATIC EVOLUTION; COUPLER DESIGN; FIBER MODE; HIGH-INDEX; IN-PLANE; LENGTH REDUCTION; TWO STAGE;

FIBERS;

EID: 77954938903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015790     Document Type: Article

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