New design for a variable optical attenuator based on a bent channel waveguide

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-23

  Tomljenovic Hanic, S ^a   Krolikowski, W ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BEND LOSS CONTROL; CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; OPTICAL ATTENUATOR;

WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATORS;

EID: 0141569371     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00340-003-1235-2     Document Type: Article

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