Bandwidth analysis of waveguide grating coupler

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 5688-5700

  Xiao, Zhe ^a,b   Liow, Tsung Yang ^b   Zhang, Jing ^d   Shum, Ping ^a,c   Luan, Feng ^a,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^c RESEARCH TECHNO PLAZA   (Singapore)

^d Agency for Science   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

BANDWIDTH ANALYSIS; FIBER PARAMETERS; GRATING COUPLERS; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; NUMERICAL APERTURE; PRACTICAL GUIDELINES; WAVEGUIDE GRATING COUPLER; WIDEBAND PERFORMANCE;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84875155770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.005688     Document Type: Article

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