Mid-infrared grating couplers for silicon-on-sapphire waveguides

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 104-113

  Cheng, Zhenzhou ^a   Chen, Xia ^a,b   Wong, C Y ^a   Xu, Ke ^a   Fung, Christy K Y ^a   Chen, Y M ^a   Tsang, Hon Ki ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

gratings; integrated optics; Mid infrared (mid IR); silicon on sapphire (SOS); subwavelength structures

Indexed keywords

APODIZED GRATINGS; CO-DOPED; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; ETCH DEPTH; FILL FACTOR; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; GRATING COUPLERS; GRATING PERIODS; INCIDENT ANGLES; MIDINFRARED; SILICON-ON-SAPPHIRE; SODIUM FLUORIDE; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; TE MODE; TM MODES; ZBLAN FIBER;

BARIUM; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ERBIUM; FIBER LASERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INFRARED DEVICES; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT SOURCES; SAPPHIRE; SODIUM; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WAVEGUIDES; ZIRCONIUM;

EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84862908588     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2011.2179921     Document Type: Article

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