Designing coupled-resonator optical waveguides based on high-Q tapered grating-defect resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 9249-9263

  Liu, Hsi Chun ^a   Yariv, Amnon ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IIR FILTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

AIR HOLES; BESSEL FILTER; BUTTERWORTH; COUPLED-MODE THEORY; COUPLED-RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; FABRICATION DISORDERS; MODAL VOLUME; NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PROPAGATION LOSS; RADIATION MODE; RESONANT MODE; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAVEGUIDE; SINGLE MODE; SPATIAL FOURIER TRANSFORM; SYSTEMATIC DESIGNS; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

DEFECTS;

EID: 84860114432     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009249     Document Type: Article

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