High-efficiency SOI fiber-to-chip grating couplers and low-loss waveguides for the short-wave infrared

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 1536-1538

  Hattasan, Nannicha ^a   Kuyken, Bart ^a   Leo, Francois ^a   Ryckeboer, Eva M P ^a   Vermeulen, Diedrik ^a   Roelkens, Gunther ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Grating coupler; short wave infrared (SWIR); silicon on insulator (SOI) waveguide

Indexed keywords

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; GRATING COUPLERS; LOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDES; SHORT WAVE INFRARED; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAVEGUIDE; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOI WAVEGUIDES; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVEGUIDES;

INFRARED RADIATION;

EID: 84865204084     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2208452     Document Type: Article

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