High efficiency and broadband two-dimensional blazed grating coupler with fully etched triangular holes

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2363-2366

  Qin, Kun ^a   Gao, Dingshan ^a   Bao, Changjing ^a   Zhao, Zhe ^a   Zhou, Xu ^a   Lu, Tingting ^a   Chen, Lin ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Blazing; grating coupler; high efficiency; wideband

Indexed keywords

BLAZED GRATING; BLAZING; BURIED OXIDE THICKNESS; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; GRATING COUPLERS; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SINGLE GRATING; TRIANGULAR HOLES; WIDE-BAND;

BANDWIDTH;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84862689314     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2198431     Document Type: Article

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