Integrated metamaterials for efficient and compact free-space-to-waveguide coupling

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 27175-27182

  Shen, Bing ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Polson, Randy ^b   Menon, Rajesh ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; FABRICATION ERRORS; GUIDED-MODE RESONANCE; MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDES; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84920054256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.027175     Document Type: Article

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