Inverse design and demonstration of a compact and broadband on-chip wavelength demultiplexer

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 374-377

  Piggott, Alexander Y ^a   Lu, Jesse ^a   Lagoudakis, Konstantinos G ^a   Petykiewicz, Jan ^a   Babinec, Thomas M ^a   Vucković, Jelena ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMULTIPLEXING; DESIGN; DISPLAY DEVICES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATED PHOTONIC DEVICES; INVERSE DESIGN METHODS; INVERSE DESIGNS; LOW INSERTION LOSS; OUTPUT WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM COMPUTING; WAVELENGTH DEMULTIPLEXERS; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 84930150112     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.69     Document Type: Article

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