Efficient silicon wire waveguide crossing with negligible loss and crosstalk

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 13732-13737

  Tsarev, Andrei V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; OPTICS; SILICA; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; WIRE;

3D FDTD; BACK REFLECTION; MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS; OPTIMAL STRUCTURES; SILICON WIRE WAVEGUIDES; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR CMOS; STRIP WAVEGUIDES; VERTICAL COUPLING; WAVEGUIDE CROSSINGS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 79960496769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013732     Document Type: Article

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