Silicon photonic grating-assisted, contra-directional couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3633-3650

  Shi, Wei ^a   Wang, Xu ^a   Lin, Charlie ^a   Yun, Han ^a   Liu, Yang ^b   Baehr Jones, Tom ^b   Hochberg, Michael ^b   Jaeger, Nicolas A F ^a   Chrostowski, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Institute University of Delaware Newark   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE SHIFT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED-MODE THEORY; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; EXTINCTION RATIOS; ON-CHIP INTEGRATION; PHASE SHIFTED; PHOTONIC FILTERS; RESONANT PEAKS; SILICON PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDE BRAGG GRATING; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING NETWORKS;

WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FILTRATION; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84874028150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.003633     Document Type: Article

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