• DocumentCode
    1657496
  • Title

    Wideband and group index independent coupling to slow light slotted photonic crystal waveguides with adiabatic group index taper and mode matching

  • Author

    Lin, Che-Yun ; Xue, Zheng ; Wang, Alan X. ; Chen, Ray T.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate highly efficient coupling into a slotted-photonic crystal waveguide featuring a nearly flat transmission spectrum with lowest insertion loss ~2.4dB.
  • Keywords
    optical design techniques; optical fabrication; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; slow light; adiabatic group index taper; group index independent coupling; loss 2.4 dB; mode matching; slow light slotted photonic crystal waveguides; Couplings; Indexes; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Silicon; Slow light;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325809