Single-mode guiding properties of subwavelength-diameter silica and silicon wire waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1025-1035

  Tong, Limin ^a,b   Lou, Jingyi ^c   Mazur, Eric ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SILICA;

OPTICAL POWER; SILICON WIRE WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 2942750385     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.001025     Document Type: Article

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