Design strategies and rigorous conditions for single-polarization single-mode waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 15170-15184

  Lee, Karen K Y ^a,b   Avniel, Yehuda ^b   Johnson, Steven G ^b  

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

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRUCTURE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; POLARIZATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ANALYTICAL CONDITIONS; DESIGN STRATEGIES; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; GUIDED MODES; LIGHT LINES; MICROSTRUCTURED WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE POLARIZATION SINGLE MODES;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 51849111533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015170     Document Type: Article

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