Compact and low-loss bent hollow waveguides with distributed Bragg reflector

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 15069-15073

  Chiu, Hua Kung ^a   Hsiao, Fu Li ^a   Chan, Chia Hua ^a   Chen, Chii Chang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG REFLECTORS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; MULTILAYERS; PLASMA CVD; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; REFLECTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

BENDING LOSS; BENT WAVEGUIDES; HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; MULTILAYER STACKS; PLANAR LIGHT-WAVE CIRCUITS; SILICON SUBSTRATES; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON;

EID: 51849142318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015069     Document Type: Article

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