Silicon mode multi/demultiplexer based on multimode grating-assisted couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 17904-17911

  Qiu, Huiye ^a,b   Yu, Hui ^a   Hu, Ting ^a   Jiang, Guomin ^c   Shao, Haifeng ^a   Yu, Ping ^a   Yang, Jianyi ^a   Jiang, Xiaoqing ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LONGYAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

CALCULATION RESULTS; CONTRA-DIRECTIONAL COUPLING; COUPLING LENGTH; COUPLING STRENGTHS; GRATING-ASSISTED COUPLERS; MODE TRANSITIONS; MULTI/DEMULTIPLEXERS; PHASE-MATCHING CONDITION;

MULTIPLEXING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84880950557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.017904     Document Type: Article

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