Quantitative analysis of optical reflection in a multimode interference 3dB coupler using a low-coherence interferometric reflectometer

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 2266-2268

  Shibata, Y ^a   Oku, S ^b   Yamamoto, M ^b   Yoshimoto, N ^b   Naganuma, M ^b  

^a NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Optical couplers; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTOMETERS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRIC REFLECTOMETER; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLERS; QUANTITATIVE REFLECTION CHARACTERISTICS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0030283872     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19961486     Document Type: Article

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