Multilayer arrow channel waveguide for evanescent field enhancement in low–index media

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1385-1390

  Jamid, Husain A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MULTILAYERS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LOW-INDEX MEDIA;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0036507960     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.001385     Document Type: Article

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