Demonstration of mode conversion using anti-symmetric waveguide Bragg gratings

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4180-4184

  Castro, Jose M ^a   Geraghty, David F ^a   Honkanen, Seppo ^b   Greiner, Christoph M ^c   Iazikov, Dmitri ^c   Mossberg, Thomas W ^c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c LightSmyth Technologies Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSTALK; CRYPTOGRAPHY; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFLECTION; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FIBER OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS; INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; MODE CONVERSION; TRANSVERSAL PLANES;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 21244460403     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.004180     Document Type: Article

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