New 2 × 2 and 1 × 3 multimode interference couplers with free selection of power splitting ratios

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2286-2292

  Besse, Pierre A ^b,c   Gini, Emilio ^b   Bachmann, Maurus ^b,d   Melchior, Hans ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; GEOMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE SHIFTERS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE;

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLERS; POWER SPLITTING RATIOS;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 0030259284     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.541220     Document Type: Article

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