MMI devices with weak guiding designed in three dimensions using a genetic algorithm

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2716-2722

  West, Brian R ^a   Honkanen, Seppo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LIGHT; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT WAVES; MODE PROPAGATION ANALYSIS (MPA); MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI); SELF-IMAGING THEORY;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 4644297210     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002716     Document Type: Article

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