Simple Estimation of Transition Losses in Bends of Wide Optical Waveguides by a Ray Tracing Method

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 825-827

  Salinas, Iñigo ^a   Garcés, Ignacio ^a   Alonso, Rafael ^a   Llobera, Andreu ^b   Dominguez C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Simulation; Waveguide bends; Waveguide transitions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SENSORS; RAY TRACING; SILICON ALLOYS;

WAVEGUIDE BENDS; WAVEGUIDE TRANSITION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 1642602754     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.823712     Document Type: Article

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