Broadband directional coupling in aluminum nitride nanophotonic circuits

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 7304-7315

  Stegmaier, Matthias ^a   Pernice, Wolfram H P ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; BANDWIDTH; NANOPHOTONICS; POLARIZATION; WAVEGUIDES;

ALUMINUM NITRIDE (ALN); COUPLED WAVEGUIDES; COUPLING BANDWIDTHS; DIRECTIONAL COUPLING; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUIT; NANOPHOTONIC CIRCUITS; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; VARIABLE SPLITTING;

COUPLED CIRCUITS;

ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; ALUMINUM NITRIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; INTERFEROMETRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84875699310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.007304     Document Type: Article

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