Mode-size converter with high coupling efficiency and broad bandwidth

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21588-21594

  Fang, Qing ^a,b   Song, Junfeng ^b,c   Luo, Xianshu ^b   Yu, Mingbin ^b   Lo, Guoqiang ^b   Liu, Yuliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVEGUIDES;

ALIGNMENT TOLERANCE; BROAD BANDWIDTHS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; COUPLING LOSS; EXCESS LOSS; MODE FIELD DIAMETER; MODE SIZE CONVERTER; NANO-SCALE WAVEGUIDES; NANO-TAPERS; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; TE AND TM MODES; VERTICAL DIRECTION; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 80054930293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021588     Document Type: Article

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