Light coupling and distribution for Si3N4/SiO 2 integrated multichannel single-mode sensing system

Optical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Kaźmierczak, Andrzej ^a   Dortu, Fabian ^a   Schrevens, Olivier ^a   Giannone, Domenico ^a   Vivien, Laurent ^b   Marris Morini, Delphine ^b   Bouville, David ^b   Cassan, Eric ^b   Gylfason, Kristinn B ^c   Sohlström, Hans ^c   Sanchez, Benito ^d   Griol, Amadeu ^d   Hill, Daniel ^d  

^a Multitel   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

integrated optics; optical systems; sensors; waveguides

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; LIGHT COUPLINGS; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTICHANNEL DATA; SENSING CHIP; SENSING SYSTEMS; SINGLE MODE;

LIGHT; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONICS; SENSORS; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 78751679823     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3067875     Document Type: Article

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