Title :
Hollow-core-waveguides using adiabatically chirped high-contrast-gratings for a >10× loss reduction
Author :
Yue, Yang ; Zhang, Lin ; Wang, Xue ; Huang, Hao ; Yang, Weijian ; Ferrara, James ; Karagodsky, Vadim ; Chase, Christopher ; Tur, Moshe ; Chang-Hasnain, Connie J. ; Willner, Alan E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
Chirped high-contrast-grating hollow-core waveguide demonstrates a >;10× loss reduction. Simulation shows that a propagation loss as low as 0.04 dB/cm can be achieved with a nonlinear coefficient on the order of 10-5 /W/m.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; diffraction gratings; optical losses; optical waveguides; adiabatically chirped high contrast gratings; hollow core waveguides; loss reduction; nonlinear coefficient; propagation loss; Chirp; Gratings; Nonlinear optics; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Propagation losses; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
