Y-branch waveguides with stabilized splitting ratio designed by wavefront matching method

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 817-819

  Sakamaki, Yohei ^a   Saida, Takashi ^a   Shibata, Tomohiro ^a   Hida, Yasuhiro ^a   Hashimoto, Toshikazu ^a   Tamura, Munehisa ^a   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Design methodology; Optical planar waveguides; Waveguide junctions

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PATTERN MATCHING; WAVEFRONTS; WAVEGUIDE JUNCTIONS;

DESIGN METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SILICA-BASED PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY; Y-BRANCH WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33644985464     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.871836     Document Type: Article

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