Vertical chip-to-chip coupling between silicon photonic integrated circuits using cantilever couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 4722-4727

  Sun, Peng ^a   Reano, Ronald M ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NANOCANTILEVERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION; SILICA; SILICON SENSORS; WAVEGUIDES;

1550 NM; CHIP COUPLING; COMPACT SYSTEM; COUPLING LOSS; DATA TRANSPORT; LIGHT COUPLINGS; OUT-OF-PLANE; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON STRIP; TM POLARIZATION; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILICON;

EID: 79952158838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.004722     Document Type: Article

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