Air trenches for sharp silica waveguide bends

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1762-1772

  Popović, Miloš ^a   Wada, Kazumi ^b   Akiyama, Shoji ^b   Haus, Hermann A ^a   Michel, Jürgen ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Mat Sci and Eng ^*

Author keywords

Air trench bend (ATB); Cladding taper; Enhanced lateral mode confinement; Low index contrast; Sharp bend loss; Silica waveguide

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SILICA; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

AIR TRENCH BEND; CLADDING TAPERS; FULL VECTOR LEAKY MODES; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; LOW INDEX CONTRAST; SILICA WAVEGUIDE; SUBSTRATE LOSS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0036767395     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2002.802230     Document Type: Article

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