Design of an angle detector for laser beams based on grating coupling

Micromachines

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 36-44

  Saha, Tapas Kumar ^a   Lu, Mingyu ^a   Ma, Zhenqiang ^b   Zhou, Weidong ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffraction gratings; Guided waves; Laser beam steering

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PARAMETERS; GRATING COUPLING; INCIDENT LIGHT; LASER BEAM STEERING; LATERAL-EFFECT; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ON CHIPS; QUADRANT PHOTODIODES; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; ULTRA-FAST;

DETECTORS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DIODES; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTODIODES; WAVEGUIDES;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 84874472658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2072666X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/mi3010036     Document Type: Article

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