Refractive-index profiling of buried planar waveguides by an inverse Wentzel-Kramer-Brillouin method

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1367-1373

  Chiang, Kin Seng ^a   Liu, Qing ^a   Lor, Kar Pong ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Buried waveguide; Graded index waveguide; Optical planar waveguide; Optical waveguide; Refractive index measurement; Wentzel Krame Brillouin (WKB) method

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDES;

BRILLOUIN; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; GRADED-INDEX PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; GUIDED MODES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; SEARCHING ALGORITHMS; WKB EQUATIONS;

PLANAR WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 46349097052     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.923637     Document Type: Article

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