Sol-gel-derived 4 × 4 multimode interference coupler: Optimization and fabrication

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 662-666

  Mishechkin, Oleg V ^a   Fallahi, Mahmoud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimode interference coupler; Optical 90 deg hybrid; Organic inorganic; Sol gel processing

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL TESTING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLER; WAVEGUIDE PARAMETERS;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 2342459058     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1646180     Document Type: Article

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