Ultrathin silicon-on-insulator grating couplers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 2247-2249

  He, Li ^a   He, Yanling ^b   Pomerene, Andrew ^c   Hill, Craig ^c   Ocheltree, Stewart ^c   Baehr Jones, Tom ^a   Hochberg, Michael ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Grating coupler; silicon photonics; ultrathin silicon waveguide

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; BACKREFLECTION; CMOS COMPATIBLE; GRATING COUPLERS; LIGHT COUPLINGS; LOW INSERTION LOSS; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAFERS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SINGLE ETCH; ULTRA-THIN; ULTRATHIN SILICON;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHOTONICS; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 84870564829     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2225830     Document Type: Article

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