Versatile multimode interference photonic switches with partial index-modulation regions

Electronics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 533-534

  Yagi, M ^a   Nagai, S ^a   Inayoshi, H ^a   Utaka, K ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CROSSTALK; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SWITCHING;

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE PHOTONIC SWITCHES; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE WAVEGUIDES; PARTIAL INDEX MODULATION; WIDE ANGLE FINITE DIFFERENCE BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 0033890702     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20000412     Document Type: Article

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