Transformation between directional couplers and multi-mode interferometers based on ridge waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 3079-3085

  Lee, Shuh Ying ^a   Darmawan, Stevanus ^a   Lee, Chee Wei ^a   Chin, Mee Koy ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVEGUIDES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS (DC); MULTI-MODE INTERFEROMETERS (MMI); OPTICAL SIGNAL ROUTING;

WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

EID: 4644260413     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003079     Document Type: Article

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