Low-loss Si3N4 arrayed-waveguide grating (de)multiplexer using nano-core optical waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 14130-14136

  Dai, Daoxin ^a   Wang, Zhi ^a   Bauters, Jared F ^a   Tien, M C ^a   Heck, Martijn J R ^a   Blumenthal, Daniel J ^a   Bowers, John E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDES; AWG-DEVICES; CORE LAYERS; LOW LOSS; ON CHIPS; SIDEWALL ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TWO WAVELENGTH; ULTRA-THIN; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS;

EID: 79960546820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014130     Document Type: Article

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