Design and fabrication of multilayer Si/SiO2 super-high N.A.GRIN lens for nanowaveguide to optical fiber coupling

Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Loh, Ter Hoe ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Ng, Keh Ting ^a   Huang, Yingyan ^b   Ho, Seng Tiong ^c  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b OptoNet Inc   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; LENSES; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

GRIN LENS; OPTICAL MODES; SI/SIO2; SIZE TRANSFORMATIONS;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 85087599247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/fio.2009.jwc53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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