Solid immersion lenses in planar waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2746-2748

  Chien, De Hao ^a   Tsai, Chang Heng ^a   Lo, Shih Shou ^a   Chen, Chii Chang ^a   Chang, Jenq Yang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Planar waveguides; Solid immersion lenses (SILs)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LENSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RAY TRACING; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SOLID IMMERSION LENSES (SILS);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 26844562541     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.854036     Document Type: Article

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