Demonstration of a curved sidewall grating demultiplexer on silicon

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 19882-19892

  Bock, Przemek J ^a   Cheben, Pavel ^a   Schmid, Jens H ^a   Velasco, Aitor V ^b   Delâge, André ^a   Janz, Siegfried ^a   Xu, Dan Xia ^a   Lapointe, Jean ^a   Hall, Trevor J ^c   Calvo, María L ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPHOTONICS;

COMPACT DEVICES; CROSS-TALK LEVELS; DEMULTIPLEXERS; NANOPHOTONIC CIRCUITS; SILICON PHOTONICS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

PHOTONICS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84865791636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.019882     Document Type: Article

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