Photolithographically fabricated low-loss asymmetric silicon slot waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 10950-10958

  Spott, Alexander ^a   Baehr Jones, Tom ^a   Ding, Ran ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Bojko, Richard ^a   O'Malley, Trevor ^a   Pomerene, Andrew ^b   Hill, Craig ^b   Reinhardt, Wesley ^b   Hochberg, Michael ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; WAVEGUIDES;

ASYMMETRIC WAVEGUIDES; LOW LOSS; OPTICAL PROPAGATION LOSS; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; WIDE-SLOT;

ELECTRIC LOSSES;

EID: 79957602162     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010950     Document Type: Article

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