Low loss and low crosstalk waveguide crossings designed by wavefront matching method

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 2005-2007

  Sakamaki, Yohei ^a   Saida, Takashi ^a   Tamura, Munehisa ^a   Hashimoto, Toshikazu ^a   Takahashi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Design methodology; Optical crosstalk; Optical planar waveguides; Waveguide junctions

Indexed keywords

BASIC CIRCUITS; CROSSING ANGLES; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; EXCESS LOSS; LOW LOSS; OPTICAL CROSS-TALK; OPTICAL PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; PLANAR LIGHTWAVE CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY; WAVEFRONT-MATCHING METHOD; WAVEGUIDE CROSSINGS; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SILICA; WAVEFRONTS; WAVEGUIDE JUNCTIONS;

CROSSTALK;

EID: 37249035013     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2006.879928     Document Type: Article

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