Wavelength-Insensitive Nonadiabatic Mode Evolution Couplers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 515-517

  Paloczi, George T ^a   Eyal, Avishay ^a,b   Yariv, Amnon ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coupled mode theory (CMT); Integrated optics; Optical couplers; Optical waveguides; Poincar sphere

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LITHOGRAPHY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHASE SHIFT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCATTERING; VECTORS;

COUPLED-MODE THEORY (CMT); OPTICAL COUPLERS; POINECARÉ SPHERE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 1442337530     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.821254     Document Type: Article

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