Silicon on ultra-low-loss waveguide photonic integration platform

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 544-555

  Bauters, Jared F ^a   Davenport, Michael L ^a   Martijn J R , ^a   Doylend, J K ^a   Chen, Arnold ^a   Fang, Alexander W ^b   Bowers, John E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b Aurrion Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLER DESIGN; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS; PROPAGATION LOSS; WAVELENGTH REGIMES;

SILICON;

EID: 84872706835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.000544     Document Type: Article

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