Ultra-compact multilayer Si/SiO2 GRIN lens mode-size converter for coupling single-mode fiber to Si-wire waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 21519-21533

  Loh, Ter Hoe ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Zhu, Jie ^a   Ng, Keh Ting ^a   Lai, Yi Cheng ^a   Huang, Yingyan ^b   Ho, Seng Tiong ^b  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENSES; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

ALIGNED FIBERS; COUPLING LOSS; FRESNEL REFLECTIONS; GRIN LENS; LOW COSTS; MODE SIZE CONVERTER; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL MODES; PHOTONICS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SI WIRE WAVEGUIDE; SI-WAVEGUIDE; SIZE TRANSFORMATIONS; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 78049525944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021519     Document Type: Article

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