Multimode interference-based photonic crystal waveguide power splitter

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2842-2846

  Liu, Tao ^a   Zakharian, Armis R ^a   Fallahi, Mahmoud ^a   Moloney, Jerome V ^a   Mansuripur, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam splitter; Multimode interference (MMI); Optical waveguides; Photonic crystal

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; POWER ELECTRONICS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DEVICE SIZE REDUCTION; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI); PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POWER SPLITTER;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 11244272871     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.834479     Document Type: Article

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