Design and analysis of completely adiabatic tapered waveguides by conformal mapping

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 403-410

  Lee, Ching Ting ^a,b,c,d,e   Wu, Mount Learn ^b,f   Sheu, Lih Gen ^b   Fan, Ping Lin ^b   Hsu, Jui Ming ^b,g  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^f FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; GEOMETRY; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTIMIZATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ADIABATIC TAPERED WAVEGUIDES; PHASE FRONT EFFECT; REFRACTIVE INDEX DISTRIBUTION; TAPER SHAPE; WAVEGUIDE THEORY;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031075606     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.554395     Document Type: Article

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