Highly efficient mode converter for coupling light into wide slot photonic crystal waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 20678-20690

  Zhang, Xingyu ^a   Subbaraman, Harish ^b   Hosseini, Amir ^b   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Omega Optics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ADIABATIC MODE; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; COUPLING LIGHT; MODE CONVERTER; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; SLOT WIDTH; WAVELENGTH REGIONS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84906731273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.020678     Document Type: Article

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