Compact silicon-on-insulator-based multimode interference coupler with bilevel taper structure

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 5036-5041

  Dai, Daoxin ^a,b,c   He, Jian Jun ^a,b,d   He, Sailing ^a,b,c  

^a JORCEP   (Sweden)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d Lightip Technologies Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ETCHING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

INPUT-OUTPUT WAVEGUIDES; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLER; SELF-IMAGING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL BEAM PROPAGATION;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 25444495247     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.005036     Document Type: Article

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