Experimental demonstration of polarization-insensitive air-cladding grating couplers for silicon-on-insulator waveguides

Optics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2206-2209

  Cheng, Zhenzhou ^a   Tsang, Hon Ki ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; EFFICIENCY; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; COUPLING WAVELENGTHS; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAVEGUIDE; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC MODES; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC MODES;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84898005828     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.002206     Document Type: Article

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