Low loss hollow-core waveguide on a silicon substrate

Nanophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-29

  Yang, Weijian ^a   Ferrara, James ^a   Grutter, Karen ^a   Yeh, Anthony ^a   Chase, Chris ^a   Yue, Yang ^b   Willner, Alan E ^b   Wu, Ming C ^a   Chang Hasnain, Connie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas sensing; High contrast subwavelength grating; Hollow core waveguide; Silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GAS DETECTORS; LASER SURGERY; LIGHT; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONICS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP; WAVEGUIDES;

GAS SENSING; HOLLOW CORE WAVEGUIDE; LAB-ON-A-CHIP APPLICATIONS; LOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAFERS; SILICON PHOTONICS; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 84873135209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21928614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2012-0003     Document Type: Article

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