New type of multimode-interference-type thermo-optic variable optical attenuator

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2497-2498

  Yang, Lin ^a   Xin, Hongli ^a   Fang, Qing ^a   Wang, Chunxia ^a   Li, Fang ^a   Li, Zhiming ^a   Liu, Yuliang ^a   Wang, Qiming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

Dynamic response; Multimode interference couplers; SOI waveguides; Static response; Thermo optic effects; Transmission spectra; Variable optical attenuators

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; INSERTION LOSSES; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVEGUIDE ATTENUATORS;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLERS; STATIC RESPONSE; THERMOOPTIC EFFECTS; TRANSMISSION SPECTRA; VARIABLE OPTICAL ATTENUATOR;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 11244305620     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1804391     Document Type: Article

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