Colorless grating couplers realized by interleaving dispersion engineered subwavelength structures

Optics Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 3588-3591

  Xu, Xiaochuan ^a   Subbaraman, Harish ^b   Covey, John ^a   Kwong, David ^a   Hosseini, Amir ^b   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b OMEGA OPTICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 DB BANDWIDTH; DISPERSION ENGINEERING; GRATING COUPLERS; PEAK EFFICIENCY; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; TRANSVERSE ELECTRICS; WAVEGUIDE DISPERSIONS;

BANDWIDTH; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 84884237547     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.003588     Document Type: Article

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