Compact single-mode silicon hybrid rib/strip waveguide with adiabatic bends

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 422-432

  Bogaerts, W ^a   Selvaraja, S K ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bends; Silicon photonics; waveguides

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC BEND; BEND LOSS; BENDS; HYBRID SILICON; LOW LOSS; PHOTONIC WIRES; PROPAGATION LOSS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SINGLE MODE; STRAIGHT RIBS; WIRE WAVE GUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 79955814436     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2011.2142931     Document Type: Article

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