Source misalignment in multimode polymer tapered waveguides for optical backplanes

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Rashed, Atef M ^a   Selviah, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angular misalignment; FD BPM; Lateral misalignment; Modeling; Multimode waveguides; Optical backplane; Polymer tapered waveguide

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; LIGHT SOURCES; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

ANGULAR MISALIGNMENT; ANGULAR TOLERANCE; LATERAL MISALIGNMENT; OPTICAL BACKPLANE; POLYMER TAPERED WAVEGUIDE;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34247239820     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2432875     Document Type: Article

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