Multimode interference-based heterostructure photonic crystal waveguide power splitter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5907, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-9

  Lin, Chun Cheng ^a   Tsao, Shyh Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Heterostructure photonic crystal; Multimode interference (MMI); Photonic bandgap (PBG); Power splitter; Silicon on insulator (SOI)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD); HETEROSTRUCTURE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI); PHOTONIC BANDGAP (PBG); POWER SPLITTER; SILICON ON INSULATOR (SOI);

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 29844449824     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.614737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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