Low loss shallow-ridge silicon waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 14474-14479

  Dong, Po ^a   Qian, Wei ^a   Liao, Shirong ^a   Liang, Hong ^a   Kung, Cheng Chih ^a   Feng, Ning Ning ^a   Shafiiha, Roshanak ^a   Fong, Joan ^a   Feng, Dazeng ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Ashok V ^b   Asghari, Mehdi ^a  

^a KOTURA INC   (United States)

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

C-BANDS; DOUBLE LEVEL; LOW-LOSS; PROPAGATION LOSS; SILICON STRIP; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; STANDARD PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY;

RIDGE WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 79955829892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.014474     Document Type: Article

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