Objective-first design of high-efficiency, small-footprint couplers between arbitrary nanophotonic waveguide modes

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7221-7236

  Lu, Jesse ^a   Vučković, Jelena ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPHOTONICS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLING PROBLEM; LINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE MODE; TWO-DIMENSION; VACUUM WAVELENGTH;

DESIGN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84859392124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007221     Document Type: Article

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