Design and modeling of passive optical switches and power dividers using non-planar coupled fiber arrays

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1438-1444

  Hudgings, Janice ^a   Molter, Lynne ^b   Dutta, Mitra ^c  

^a MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED MODE ANALYSIS; NONPLANAR COUPLED FIBER ARRAYS; OPTICAL ARRAYS; OPTICAL FIBER SWITCHES; POWER DIVIDERS;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 0034486539     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.892564     Document Type: Article

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