Anomalous losses in curved waveguides and directional couplers at "magic widths"

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 521-522

  Tummidi, Ravi S ^a   Nguyen, Thach ^b   Mitchell, Arnan ^b   Koch, Thomas L ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Guided waves; Integrated optic materials

Indexed keywords

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM OPTICS; WAVEGUIDES;

ANOMALOUS LOSSES; COUPLING ELEMENTS; CURVED WAVEGUIDES; GUIDED WAVES; RADIATION LOSSES; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTRIC LOSSES;

EID: 58049182877     PISSN: 10928081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688721     Document Type: Conference Paper

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