Ideal bend contour trajectories for single-mode operation of low-loss overmoded waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 819-821

  Koos, Christian ^a   Poulton, Christopher G ^b   Zimmermann, Lars ^c   Jacome, Lenin ^a   Leuthold, Jueg ^a   Freude, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multimode waveguides; Variational methods; Waveguide bends

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE BENDS;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 34249085910     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.897294     Document Type: Article

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