Ultralow-loss silicon waveguide crossing using Bloch modes in index-engineered cascaded multimode-interference couplers

Optics Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 3608-3611

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Hosseini, Amir ^b   Xu, Xiaochuan ^a   Kwong, David ^a   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

BROADBAND SILICON; LOW-LOSS WAVEGUIDES; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLERS; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SUBWAVELENGTH NANOSTRUCTURES; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; WAVEGUIDE CROSSINGS;

INSERTION LOSSES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84884265148     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.38.003608     Document Type: Article

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