A compact bi-wavelength polarization splitting grating coupler fabricated in a 220 nm SOI platform

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 25, 2013, Pages 31019-31028

  Streshinsky, Matthew ^a,b   Shi, Ruizhi ^a,b   Novack, Ari ^a,b   Cher, Roger Tern Poh ^a   Lim, Andy Eu Jin ^a   Lo, Patrick Guo Qiang ^a   Baehr Jones, Tom ^c,d   Hochberg, Michael ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d EastWest Photonics PTE LTD Waterloo Centre   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSERTION LOSSES;

1550 NM; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; FIBER ANGLES; GRATING COUPLERS; POLARIZATION SPLITTINGS; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; TRANSMISSION WINDOW; WAVELENGTH BAND;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84890512572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.031019     Document Type: Article

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