Adiabaticity criterion and the shortest adiabatic mode transformer in a coupled-waveguide system

Optics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 280-282

  Sun, Xiankai ^a   Liu, Hsi Chun ^a   Yariv, Amnon ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSFER; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

ADIABATIC MODE; ADIABATICITY; COUPLED WAVEGUIDE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; POWER TRANSFERS; TRANSFER MATRIXES; UNIVERSAL CRITERION; WAVEGUIDE DESIGN;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 59349110966     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.000280     Document Type: Article

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