Modeling of hollow waveguide optical switch with variable air core

IEICE Electronics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 551-555

  Baea, Chang Hwan ^a   Koyama, Fumio ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

air core; hollow waveguide; MMI coupler; optical switch

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747702383     PISSN: 13492543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/elex.1.551     Document Type: Article

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