Germanium-on-silicon mid-infrared arrayed waveguide grating multiplexers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 1805-1808

  Malik, Aditya ^a   Muneeb, Muhammad ^a   Pathak, Shibnath ^a   Shimura, Yosuke ^b   Van Campenhout, Joris ^b   Loo, Roger ^b   Roelkens, Gunther ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

arrayed waveguide gratings; Mid infrared

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING MULTIPLEXER; CHANNEL SPACINGS; GERMANIUM ON SILICONS; MIDINFRARED; TE-POLARIZED LIGHT; TM POLARIZATION; WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXERS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

GERMANIUM; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS;

EID: 84883356533     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2276479     Document Type: Article

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