Near-infrared grating couplers for silicon nitride photonic wires

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 1700-1703

  Subramanian, Ananth Z ^a   Selvaraja, Shankar ^a   Verheyen, Peter ^b   Dhakal, Ashim ^a   Komorowska, Katarzyna ^a   Baets, Roel ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gratings; integrated optics; optical materials; optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

GRATING COUPLERS; HIGH INDEX MATERIALS; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTONIC CIRCUITS; PHOTONIC WIRES; SILICON NITRIDE WAVEGUIDES; THEORETICAL SIMULATION; WAVELENGTH REGIMES;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INFRARED DEVICES; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; WIRE;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 84866506548     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2212881     Document Type: Article

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