Improved approach to low-loss and high-uniformity MMI devices

Optics Communications

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 317-321

  Yin, Rui ^a   Yang, Jianyi ^a   Jiang, Xiaoqing ^a   Li, Jin ^a   Wang, Minghua ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI) DEVICES; SELF-IMAGING;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0033703972     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(00)00782-3     Document Type: Article

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