Low-Loss Bends in Planar Optical Ridge Waveguides

Electronics Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 1988, Pages 998-999

  Pennings, E C M ^a   Manhoudt, G H ^a,b   Smit, M K ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b AT&T and Philips Telecommunication ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Losses; Optical waveguide components; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

BENDING LOSSES; CLADDING LAYERS; LOW-LOSS BENDS; OPTOELECTRONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE BENDS;

WAVEGUIDES, OPTICAL;

EID: 0024277812     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19880679     Document Type: Article

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