A CMOS-compatible, low-loss, and low-crosstalk silicon waveguide crossing

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 422-425

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Yang, Shuyu ^a   Lim, Andy Eu Jin ^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

Silicon on insulator technology; wafer scale integration; waveguide junctions

Indexed keywords

CMOS COMPATIBLE; LOW-LOSS; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SUBMICRON; WAVEGUIDE CROSSINGS;

CROSSTALK; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVEGUIDE JUNCTIONS; WAVEGUIDES; WSI CIRCUITS;

SILICON WAFERS;

EID: 84873629463     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2241049     Document Type: Article

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