Waveguide-coupled drop filters on SOI using quarter-wave shifted sidewalled grating resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 15983-15990

  Veerasubramanian, Venkat ^a   Beaudin, Guillaume ^b   Giguère, Alexandre ^b   Le Drogoff, Boris ^c   Aimez, Vincent ^b   Kirk, Andrew G ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

1550 NM; AT RESONANCE; BRAGG RESONATORS; BUS WAVEGUIDES; COUPLED CAVITY; COUPLED CHANNELS; E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FABRICATED DEVICE; GRATING RESONATOR; POWER TRANSFERS; QUARTER WAVES; REJECTION RATIOS; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS;

WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

EID: 84863733456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015983     Document Type: Article

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