High efficiency 90° silica waveguide bend using an air hole photonic crystal region

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1846-1848

  Kim, Seunghyun ^a   Nordin, Gregory P ^a   Jiang, Jianhua ^a   Cai, Jingbo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICA; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL LOSSES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SILICA WAVEGUIDE; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC POLARIZED LIGHT; WAVEGUIDE BEND;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 4043108506     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.829758     Document Type: Article

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