Wide-band optical mode converters for coupling between fibers and silicon photonic wires with large misalignment tolerance

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1616-1620

  Ku, Kai Ning ^a   Lee, Ming Chang M ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Optical fiber couplers; optical interconnections

Indexed keywords

COUPLING LOSS; FIBER MISALIGNMENTS; NANO-TAPERS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLER; OPTICAL MODES; SILICON PHOTONIC WIRES; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WIRE;

FIBERS;

EID: 84876015633     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2013.2253305     Document Type: Article

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