Waveguide couplers with new power splitting ratios made possible by cascading of short multimode interference sections

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1588-1593

  Feng, David J Y ^a   Lay, T S ^a   Chang, T Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MIRRORS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

CROSS COUPLING; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE; POWER SPLITTING RATIOS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 33847093512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001588     Document Type: Article

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