Ultracompact tapers for light coupling into two-dimensional slab photonic-crystal waveguides in the slow light regime

Optical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Marris Morini, Delphine ^a   Cassan, Eric ^a   Bernier, Damien ^a   Maire, Guillaume ^a   Vivien, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

integrated optics; photonic crystal; silicon; slow wave

Indexed keywords

COMPACT TAPER; COUPLING LOSS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; GROUP VELOCITIES; GROUP-VELOCITY MISMATCH; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; LIGHT COUPLINGS; LIGHT REGIME; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; OPTICAL MODES; PC WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; PLANE-WAVE EXPANSIONS; SLOW WAVE; STRIP WAVEGUIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 80855127967     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2831132     Document Type: Article

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