Length reduction of tapered N x N MMI devices

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 830-832

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

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

Author keywords

Multimode interference; Parabolic waveguide tapers; Power splitters

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD (BPM); MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI) BASED DEVICES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032098478     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.681500     Document Type: Article

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