Liquid-core directional couplers integrated with silica waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 2511-2513

  Dumais, Patrick ^a   Callender, Claire L ^a   Noad, Julian P ^a   Ledderhof, Christopher J ^a  

^a Industry Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Liquids; Optical directional couplers; Optical planar waveguide components

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

LIQUID-CORE DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; OPTICAL DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; SILICA WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33947265270     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.887342     Document Type: Article

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