Analysis of optical waveguides with multilayer dielectric coatings using plane wave expansion

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 635-642

  Nguyen, Thach Giang ^b   Mitchell, Arnan ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Multilayer; Optical reflection; Optical waveguides; Waveguide discontinuities

Indexed keywords

MULTIDIELECTRIC COATINGS; OPTICAL REFLECTION; PLANE WAVE EXPANSION METHOD; WAVEGUIDE DISCONTINUITIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; REFLECTION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33947639508     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.860158     Document Type: Article

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