Scattering induced crosstalk in active directional couplers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2012-2025

  Lin, Sihan ^a   Feng, Wei ^a   Powelson, Judith C ^a,b,c,d   Feuerstein, Robert J ^a,e   Bintz, Louis James ^a,b,d,f   Tomic, Darja ^a,b,g   Mickelson, Alan Rolf ^a,d,h,i,j,k  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Martin Marietta ^*

^e POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f University of Colorado   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j BYURAKAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (Armenia)

^k NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRODES; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

DIRECTIONAL COUPLER SWITCHES; ELECTRODE VOLTAGES;

CROSSTALK;

EID: 0030247597     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.536969     Document Type: Article

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