Compact waveguide splitter networks

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 4981-4990

  Qian, Yusheng ^a   Song, Jiguo ^a   Kim, Seunghyun ^a   Hu, Weisheng ^a   Nordin, Gregory P ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPACT WAVEGUIDE SPLITTER NETWORKS; OPTICAL LOSS; TRENCH-BASED SPLITTER NETWORKS (TBSNS); WAVEGUIDE SPACING;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS;

EID: 41649086330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.004981     Document Type: Article

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