Geometric variations in high index-contrast waveguides, coupled mode theory in curvilinear coordinates

Optics Express

Volumn 10, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 1227-1243

  Skorobogatiy, M ^a   Jacobs, Steven A ^a   Johnson, Steven G ^a   Fink, Yoel ^a  

^a OmniGuide   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FIBER OPTICS; GEOMETRY; HAMILTONIANS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

FIBER DESIGN; FIBER PROPERTIES; GROUP VELOCITY;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0038801771     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.001227     Document Type: Article

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