Fiber-to-chip coupler designed using an optical transformation

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 14705-14713

  Markov, Petr ^a   Valentine, Jason G ^b   Weiss, Sharon M ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; LITHOGRAPHY; PHOTONICS;

AIR HOLES; BUTT COUPLING; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; HEXAGONAL LATTICE; LITHOGRAPHY PROCESS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MODE CONVERSIONS; OPTICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SINGLE-STEP; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; WAVEGUIDE MODE;

WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84863768473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.014705     Document Type: Article

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