A compact and low loss Y-junction for submicron silicon waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1310-1316

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Yang, Shuyu ^a   Eu Jin Lim, Andy ^b   Lo, Guo Qiang ^b   Galland, Christophe ^a   Baehr Jones, Tom ^a   Hochberg, Michael ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

COMPATIBLE PROCESS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; MULTIMODE INTERFEROMETER; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SUBMICRON; Y-JUNCTIONS;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 84872743310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.001310     Document Type: Article

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