Equivalent refractive index of MQW waveguides

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1383-1390

  Saini, Mamta ^a,b   Sharma, Enakshi K ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c CH CHARAN SINGH UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EQUIVALENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDE LOSSES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0030216216     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.511551     Document Type: Article

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