Silicon photonic integrated circuit mode multiplexer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 648-651

  Ding, Yunhong ^a   Ou, Haiyan ^a   Xu, Jing ^a   Peucheret, Christophe ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Grating coupler; Mode multiplexer; Photonic integrated circuit (PIC); Silicon on insulator; Space division multiplexing (SDM)

Indexed keywords

GRATING COUPLERS; MODE MULTIPLEXER; ORTHOGONAL MODES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POLARIZATION MODES; SILICON PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SPACE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; VERTICAL GRATINGS;

MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 84897584739     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2247394     Document Type: Article

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