Design of compact optical bends with a trench by use of finite-element and beam-propagation methods

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 27, 2000, Pages 4946-4953

  Rajarajan, Muttukrishnan ^a   Obayya, Salah S A ^b   Rahman, B M Azizur ^a   Grattan, Kenneth T V ^a   El Mikati, Hamdi A ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Mansoura   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTIMIZATION;

OPTICAL BENDS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 0003022941     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.004946     Document Type: Article

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