The design of multimode interference couplers with arbitrary power splitting ratios on an SOI platform

Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 378-379

  Le, Thanh T ^a   Cahill, Laurence W ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Multimode interference (MMI) couplers; Optical logic gates

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOGIC GATES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

3D BEAMS; FINITE DIFFERENCES; MMI COUPLERS; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI) COUPLERS; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLERS; OPTICAL LOGIC GATES; POWER SPLITTING RATIOS; SILICON ON INSULATORS; VARIABLE POWERS; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 58049177075     PISSN: 10928081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688648     Document Type: Conference Paper

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