Imaging properties of multimode photonic crystal waveguides and waveguide arrays

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 402-409

  Modotto, Daniele ^a   Conforti, Matteo ^a   Locatelli, Andrea ^a   De Angelis, Costantino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Couplers; Diffraction; Finite element method; Integrated optics; Multimode interference; Multimode waveguides; Photonic crystal (PC); Waveguide arrays

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLERS; IMAGING PROPERTIES; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE; MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 34147177532     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.886681     Document Type: Article

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