Compact cantilever couplers for low-loss fiber coupling to silicon photonic integrated circuits

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 164-172

  Wood, Michael ^a   Sun, Peng ^a   Reano, Ronald M ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLED CIRCUITS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NANOCANTILEVERS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY; SILICA; WAVEGUIDES;

C-BANDS; CHIP SURFACES; COUPLING LOSS; COUPLING SCHEME; FABRICATED DEVICE; FIBER COUPLINGS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; INFRARED MEASUREMENTS; LOW LOSS; OPTICAL TELECOMMUNICATION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; QUASI-TE MODE; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON STRIP; STRIP WAVEGUIDES; TAPERED OPTICAL FIBERS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; PHOTON; SEMICONDUCTOR; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SILICON; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84855420214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.000164     Document Type: Article

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