Periodic dielectric waveguide beam splitter based on co-directional coupling

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4536-4545

  Luan, Pi Gang ^a   Chang, Kao Der ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CO DIRECTIONAL COUPLING; PERIODIC DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES (PDW); PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES (PCW);

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 34247250301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004536     Document Type: Article

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