Experimental assessment of the reflection of passive multimode interference couplers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1604-1606

  Erasme, D ^b,c   Spiekman, L H ^b,d   Herben, C G P ^b   Smit, M K ^a   Groen, F H ^b  

^a IEEE

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Multimode interference (MMI) coupler; Reflectometry; Semiconductor waveguides

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTOMETERS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI) COUPLER; SEMICONDUCTOR WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS;

EID: 0031380640     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.643282     Document Type: Article

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