A simple and effective method for calculating the bending loss and phase enhancement of a bent planar waveguide

Fiber and Integrated Optics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 25-36

  Lu, Jun ^a,d   He, Sailing ^b   Romanov, Vladimir G ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bending loss; Bent planar waveguides; Integrated optics; Leaky wave; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BENDING LOSS; BENT PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; LEAKY WAVES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 13844254578     PISSN: 01468030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01468030590887650     Document Type: Article

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