Bridging the gap between optical fibers and silicon photonic integrated circuits

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1277-1286

  Zaoui, Wissem Sfar ^a   Kunze, Andreas ^a   Vogel, Wolfgang ^a   Berroth, Manfred ^a   Butschke, Jörg ^b   Letzkus, Florian ^b   Burghartz, Joachim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Mikroelektronik Stuttgart   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DIFFRACTIVE GRATING; EFFICIENT COUPLING; NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; NONUNIFORM GRATINGS; RIGOROUS APPROACH; SILICON PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER;

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 84893410862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.001277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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