A new design for ultracompact multimode interference-based 2 × 2 couplers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 96-98

  Levy, David S ^a,b   Scarmozzino, Robert ^b   Li, York M ^b   Osgood Jr , Richard M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Couplers; Multimode interference; Parabolic waveguide taper; Power splitters

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE;

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE; PARABOLIC WAVEGUIDE TAPERS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0031646371     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.651120     Document Type: Article

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