Modeling of a polymer 1 × 3 MMI power splitter for optical backplane

Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, Proceedings, COMMAD

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 281-284

  Rashed, Atef M ^a   Selviah, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FD BPM; Multimode tapered waveguide; Optical backplane; Optical connector; Polymer MMI; Power splitter; Source misalignmen; Spot size converter

Indexed keywords

POLYMERS;

DEVICE DESIGNS; EXCESS LOSSES; MICROELECTRONIC MATERIALS; OPTICAL BACKPLANE; POWER SPLITTERS;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD;

EID: 46149112159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/COMMAD.2004.1577545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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