Determination of bending losses in rectangular waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1703-1714

  Deck, R T ^a   Mirkov, Mirko ^a   Bagley, B G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bending losses; Bent retangular waveguides; Corner field corrections

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ERROR CORRECTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BENDING LOSSES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032165972     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.712257     Document Type: Article

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