A New General Approach to Optical Waveguide Path Design

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 481-492

  Ladouceur, François ^a   Labeye, Pierre ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LOSSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTIMIZATION;

ARC OF CIRCLES; BENDING (OPTICAL); CONCATENATION; CURVE ADAPTATION; LOSS REDUCTION; OFFSET LINE SEGMENTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE PATH DESIGN; TRANSITION LOSS; WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0029271039     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.372446     Document Type: Article

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