Design of compact ring resonator and Mach-Zehnder interferometer with air trenches

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Kim, Seunghyun ^a   Jiang, Jianhua ^a   Nordin, Gregory P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air trenches; Guided waves; Integrated optics; Integrated optics devices; Mach Zehnder interferometer; Planar lightwave circuit; Ring resonator; Total internal reflection

Indexed keywords

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

AIR TRENCHES; INTEGRATED OPTICS DEVICES; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT; RING RESONATOR; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 33748587337     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2202926     Document Type: Article

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