Optimizing polarization-diversity couplers for Si-photonics: Reaching the -1dB coupling efficiency threshold

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 14769-14781

  Carroll, Lee ^a   Gerace, Dario ^a   Cristiani, Ilaria ^a   Andreani, Lucio C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

3D FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; ALIGNMENT TOLERANCE; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DEVICE OPTIMIZATION; EFFICIENCY LIMITS; INDUSTRIAL ADOPTION; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR PLATFORMS; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84902953200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.014769     Document Type: Article

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