Reflectionless grating couplers for Silicon-on-Insulator photonic integrated circuits

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 22278-22283

  De Koninck, Y ^a   Li, Y ^a   Lambert, E ^a   Bogaerts, W ^a   Baets, R ^a   Roelkens, G ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Acacia Communications Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

3D FDTD; DESIGN RULES; GRATING COUPLERS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; REFLECTED LIGHT; SILICON ON INSULATOR;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84866669760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.022278     Document Type: Article

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