Optimized design of polarization-independent and temperature-insensitive broadband optical waveguide coupler by use of fluorinated polyimide

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 4196-4201

  Chen, Baoxue ^a   Lu, Hongliang ^a   Zhao, Dexin ^b   Yuan, Yifang ^a   Iso, Mamoru ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Nitta Shanghai Co   (China)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DENSE WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; POLYIMIDES; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS (POF);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0043175469     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004196     Document Type: Article

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