Phase compensation of bent Silica-glass optical channel waveguide devices by vector-wave mode-matching method

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 538-545

  Wang, Weyl Kuo ^a,b,d,e   Scotti, Ron ^c   Muehlner, D J ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL GLASS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SILICA;

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETRIC FILTER; PHASE COMPENSATION; VECTOR WAVE MODE MATCHING METHOD;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031103943     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.557571     Document Type: Article

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