Grating-based optical fiber interfaces for silicon-on-insulator photonic integrated circuits

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 571-580

  Roelkens, G ^a   Vermeulen, D ^a   Selvaraja, S ^a   Halir, R ^b   Bogaerts, W ^a   Van Thourhout, D ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fiber interface; grating couplers; silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT TOLERANCE; DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS; FIBER INTERFACE; GRATING COUPLERS; GRATING STRUCTURES; HIGH EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; OPTICAL FIBER INTERFACE; OPTICAL PROBE; OUT-OF-PLANE; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON PHOTONICS; SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER; WAFER-SCALE;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SILICON WAFERS;

PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79958282390     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2069087     Document Type: Article

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