Group-index independent coupling to band engineered SOI photonic crystal waveguide with large slow-down factor

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21832-21841

  Rahimi, Somayyeh ^a   Hosseini, Amir ^a   Xu, Xiaochuan ^a   Subbaraman, Harish ^b   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b OMEGA OPTICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SILICA; SLOW LIGHT; WAVEGUIDES;

FABRICATION YIELD; GROUP INDEX; LIGHT LINES; LOW LOSS; ON CHIPS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SINGLE HOLE; SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 80054904053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021832     Document Type: Article

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