Polarization effects in tapered dielectric waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 1931-1941

  Jin, Ge ^a   Shi, Shouyuan ^a   Sharkawy, Ahmed ^a   Prather, Dennis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADDING (COATING); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ADIABATIC TAPERS; OPTICAL MODE SIZE; SLAB WAVEGUIDES; TAPERED WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 2942746337     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.001931     Document Type: Article

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