First-principle derivation of gain in high-index-contrast waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 16659-16669

  Robinson, Jacob T ^a   Preston, Kyle ^a   Painter, Oskar ^b   Lipson, Michal ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; FABRICATION TOLERANCES; FIGURES OF MERITS; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; HIGH-INDEX CONTRAST WAVEGUIDES; LASING THRESHOLD; LOW INDEX CONTRAST; LOW-THRESHOLD LASING;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 54249124480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.016659     Document Type: Article

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