Effect of the first-order mode in access waveguides on the performance of unbalanced MMI couplers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1882-1884

  Patent, E A ^a   Van Der Tol, J J G M ^a   Karouta, F ^a   Binsma, J J M ^b   Smit, M K ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PLASMA ETCHING; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH;

COUPLING RATIOS; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLERS; OPTICAL COUPLERS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 4043125433     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.831061     Document Type: Article

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