Spectral method applied to design of spotsize converters

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 25, 1997, Pages 2121-2123

  Vukovic, A ^a   Sewell, P ^a   Benson, T M ^a   Kendall, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Optical couplers; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

FREE SPACE RADIATION MODE METHOD; INTEGRATED OPTICAL SPOTSIZE TRANSFORMERS; SPECTRAL INDEX METHOD; SPOTSIZE CONVERTER;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 0031553254     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971405     Document Type: Article

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