A fiber-to-chip coupler based on Si/SiON cascaded tapers for Si photonic chips

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 29313-29319

  Park, Hyundai ^a   Kim, Sanggi ^a   Park, Jaegyu ^a   Joo, Jiho ^a   Kim, Gyungock ^a  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON NITRIDE; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ADIABATIC MODE; COUPLING LOSS; DOUBLE STAGE; SI PHOTONICS; SILICON OXYNITRIDES; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; TAPER STRUCTURE; TE POLARIZATIONS;

SILICON;

EID: 84890071825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.029313     Document Type: Article

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