Transition, radiation and propagation loss in polymer multimode waveguide bends

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 669-679

  Papakonstantinou, Ioannis ^a   Wang, Kai ^a   Selviah, David R ^a   Anibal Fernandez F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; INSERTION LOSSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIATION;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD (BPM); COUPLING LOSS; POLYMER WAVEGUIDE; WAVEGUIDE BENDS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33846506540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.000669     Document Type: Article

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