Fully adiabatic design of waveguide branches

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1832-1840

  Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HITACHI CABLE LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coupled mode analysis; Nonadiabatic effects; Optical couplers; Optical planar waveguide components; Optical waveguide theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

COUPLED MODE ANALYSIS; NONADIABATIC EFFECTS; OPTICAL COUPLERS; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE THEORY;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 34547132307     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.899186     Document Type: Article

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