Robust optimization of adiabatic tapers for coupling to slow-light photonic-crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 21558-21575

  Oskooi, Ardavan ^a   Mutapcic, Almir ^b   Noda, Susumu ^a   Joannopoulos, J D ^c   Boyd, Stephen P ^d   Johnson, Steven G ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SARAJEVO SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT VELOCITY; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

ADIABATIC TAPERS; GROUP VELOCITIES; NANO-METER SCALE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; ROBUST OPTIMIZATION; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 84866243257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.021558     Document Type: Article

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