Experimental demonstration of replicated multimode interferometer power splitter in Zr-doped sol-gel

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 612-615

  Kim, Je Hong ^b   Dudley, Bruce W ^a,b   Moyer, Patrick J ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimode interference device; Planar waveguides; Power splittes; Sol gel

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; DOPING (ADDITIVES); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SOL-GELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ZIRCONIUM;

GEOMETRICAL PROPERTIES; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE DEVICE; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE (PDMS); POWER SPLITTER;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 33947691632     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.859849     Document Type: Article

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