A two-waveguide tapered velocity coupler for a variable divider of optical power

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E79-C, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 587-592

  Geshiro, Masahiro ^a   Kitamura, Toshiaki ^a   Yoshikawa, Tadashi ^b  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^b SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electro optic effect; Finite difference beam propagation method; Linbo3 waveguide; Optical power divider; Tapered velocity coupler

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SUBSTRATES;

OPTICAL POWER DIVIDER; TAPERED VELOCITY COUPLER;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0030123791     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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