Lateral leakage in symmetric SOI rib-type slot waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 287-294

  Muellner, Paul ^a   Finger, Norman ^a   Hainberger, Rainer ^a  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

LATERAL LEAKAGE; SLOT WAVEGUIDES; STRUCTURAL DEVIATIONS; VARIATIONAL MODE-MATCHING METHOD;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 38049186762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000287     Document Type: Article

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