Photopatterned polymer multimode 8×8 star couplers: comparative design methodologies and device measurements

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E80-B, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 135-144

  Ilic, Igor ^a   Scarmozzino, Robert ^a   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a   Yardley, James T ^b   Beeson, Karl W ^b   McFarland, Michael J ^b   Stengel, Kelly M T ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b HONEYWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

And ray tracing; Beam propagation; Multimode; Polymer; Star coupler

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; STAR COUPLER;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0030702280     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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