Crosstalk in a Lossy Directional Coupler Switch

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 1530-1535

  Chinni, V R ^a,b   Wai, P K A ^a,c   Menyuk, C R ^a   Huang, T C ^d   Simonis, G J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSTALK; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIRECTIONAL COUPLER SWITCH; EIGENMODE THEORY; LOSSLESS SYSTEMS; MATERIAL ABSORPTION;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0029342330     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.400714     Document Type: Article

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