A study of high-index-contrast 90° waveguide bend structures

Optics Express

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 517-528

  Espinola, R L ^a   Ahmad, R U ^a   Pizzuto, F ^a   Steel, M J ^a   Osgood Jr , R M ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROELECTRONICS; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BEND STRUCTURES; BEND TRANSMISSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD); OPTICAL DESIGN AND FABRICATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0000254255     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.8.000517     Document Type: Article

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