Supermodes of grating-coupled multimode waveguides and application to mode conversion between copropagating modes mediated by backward Bragg scattering

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 942-947

  Peral, Eva ^a   Yariv, Amnon ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

BACKWARD BRAGG SCATTERING; COUPLED MODE ANALYSIS; MODE CONVERTER; MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032652511     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.762915     Document Type: Article

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