Multimode interference switch design with loose manufacturing tolerance

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 165-169

  Moyer, Patrick J ^a,b   Pridmore, Stephen A ^a   Farahi, Faramarz ^a,b  

^a Waveguide Solutions   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimode interference devices; Optical switches; Photonic lightwave circuits; Planar waveguides

Indexed keywords

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE DEVICES; PHOTONIC LIGHTWAVE CIRCUITS;

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTION;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 1642587785     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1626668     Document Type: Article

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