Integrated photonic coupler based on frustrated total internal reflection

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 30, 2008, Pages 5682-5690

  Huntoon, Nathan R ^a   Christensen, Marc P ^a   MacFarlane, Duncan L ^b   Evans, Gary A ^a   Yeh, C S ^a  

^a Southern Methodist University   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELING; FRUSTRATED TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUIT; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; OPTICAL COUPLER; TRANSMISSION AND REFLECTION COEFFICIENT;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 60749113146     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.005682     Document Type: Article

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