Improving solid to hollow core transmission for integrated ARROW waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20981-20986

  Lunt, Evan J ^a   Measor, Philip ^b   Phillips, Brian S ^a   Kühn, Sergei ^b   Schmidt, Holger ^b   Hawkins, Aaron R ^a  

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

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); WAVEGUIDES;

ANTIRESONANT; ANTIRESONANT REFLECTING OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; ARROW WAVEGUIDES; HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; INTEGRATED PLATFORM; OPTICAL SENSING; OPTICAL THROUGHPUT; SOLID WAVEGUIDES;

SUBSTRATE INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 57349099505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020981     Document Type: Article

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