Design and applications of silicon waveguide grating couplers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8266, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chen, Xia ^a,b   Cheng, Zhenzhou ^a   Fung, Christy K Y ^a   Tsang, Hon K ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gratings; Integrated optics; Silicon on insulator technology; Waveguide couplers

Indexed keywords

APODIZED GRATINGS; COUPLING STRENGTHS; DESIGN AND APPLICATION; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; FIBER CHIP COUPLING; GRATING COUPLERS; HYBRID LASERS; MIDINFRARED; OTHER APPLICATIONS; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENCE; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SILICON-ON-SAPPHIRE; SILICONON-INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY (SOI); SUB-WAVELENGTH; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; TWO DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRATING; WAVEGUIDE GRATING COUPLER; WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SILICON WAFERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84863246386     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.907947     Document Type: Conference Paper

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