Insertion loss and misalignment tolerance in multimode tapered waveguide bends

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1000-1002

  Papakonstantinou, Ioannis ^a   Selviah, David R ^a   Wang, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multimode polymer waveguide; Optical printed circuit board; Spotsize converter; Tapered waveguide bend

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; LAYOUT DESIGNS; MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDES; MULTIMODE POLYMERS; MULTIMODES; OPTICAL PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; SOURCE MISALIGNMENT; SPOT SIZE CONVERTERS; TAPER RATIOS; TAPERED WAVEGUIDE;

ALIGNMENT; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

EID: 58149153091     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.923744     Document Type: Article

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