Coupling efficiency of butt-joined planar waveguides with simultaneous tilt and transverse offset

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 901-907

  Hosain, S ^a   Meunier, J P ^b   Wang, Zi Hua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LENSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MODAL ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

FIBER TO CHANNEL BUTT JOINTS; GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATION; GRADED INDEX PLANAR WAVEGUIDE; LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; WAVEGUIDE LENSES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0030146621     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.495175     Document Type: Article

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