Multimode interference structures - New way of passive elements technology for photonics

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 293-300

  Blahut M ^a   Opilski, A ^a  

^a SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Mach Zehnder interferometer; Multimode interference; Optical splitters; Self imaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042618067     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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