Advanced modeling and design of ion-exchanged glass waveguides and devices

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5451, Issue , 2004, Pages 402-413

  West, Brian R ^a   Honkanen, Seppo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternating direction implicit method; Directional coupler; Finite difference method; Integrated optics; Ion exchange; Multimode interference; Numerical modeling; Optical waveguides

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; ION EXCHANGE; IONIC CONDUCTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL GLASS;

ALTERNATING DIRECTION IMPLICIT METHOD; DIRECTIONAL COUPLER; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE; NUMERICAL MODELING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 12344260726     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.548225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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