Directional coupler based on radiatively coupled waveguides

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 635-641

  Shamonin, M ^a   Lohmeyer, M ^a   Hertel, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Directional couplers; Integrated optics; Polarization splitters; Radiatively coupled waveguides

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; EFFECTIVE MODE INDEX; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE; POLARIZATION SPLITTERS; PROPAGATING MODE ANALYSIS; RADIATIVELY COUPLED WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0030786311     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.000635     Document Type: Article

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