Single-mode GaAs/AlGaAs W waveguides with a low propagation loss

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 928-933

  Byun, Young Tae ^b   Park, Kyung Hyun ^b   Kim, Sun Ho ^b   Choi, Sang Sam ^b   Lim, Tong Kun ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Effective index method; Fabry Perot resonance method; Low propagation loss; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001630260     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.000928     Document Type: Article

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