Electro-optic modulator coupling loss improvement by tapering waveguides and fibers

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 31481-31488

  Yacoubian, Araz ^a   Lin, Weiping ^a   Olson, David ^a   Shi, Yongqiang ^a   Bechtel, James H ^a  

^a IPITEK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; INSERTION LOSSES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

ELECTRO-OPTIC (EO) MODULATORS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0034847435     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2001.931378     Document Type: Article

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