Principles and application of reduced beat length in MMI couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 8753-8764

  Chung, Lung Wei ^a   Lee, San Liang ^a   Lin, Yen Juei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT INTERFERENCE;

BEAT LENGTH; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI); PHASE DIFFERENCE;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 33748931148     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.008753     Document Type: Article

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