Dispersion effects on grating-assisted output couplers under ultrafast pulse excitations

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-23

  Liang, Tao ^a   Ziolkowski, Richard W ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric waveguide; Dispersion; FDTD modeling; Grating assisted coupler; Ultrafast optical pulses

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LASER PULSES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GRATING ASSISTED COUPLERS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 0031704154     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2760(199801)17:1<17::AID-MOP4>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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