Optimal design method of a low-loss broadband Y branch with a multimode waveguide section

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 36, 2002, Pages 7644-7649

  Wang, Qian ^a   Lu, Jun ^b   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0037147570     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007644     Document Type: Article

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