Comparative Study of Uniform and Nonuniform Grating Couplers for Optimized Fiber Coupling to Silicon Waveguides |
Lee, Moon Hyeok
(Department of Physics, Inha University)
Jo, Jae Young (Department of Physics, Inha University) Kim, Dong Wook (Department of Physics, Inha University) Kim, Yudeuk (Department of Physics, Inha University) Kim, Kyong Hon (Department of Physics, Inha University) |
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