Integrated diffractive optical mode converter for fiber-to-waveguide coupling

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 369-373

  Lu, Si ^a   Yan, Ying Bai ^a   Yi, De Er ^a   Jin, Guo Fan ^a   Wu, Min Xian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diffractive optical element (DOE); Fiber to waveguide coupling; Phase retrieval

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

OPTICAL MODE CONVERTERS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0038560942     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-3992(03)00030-6     Document Type: Article

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