Confining light flow in weakly coupled waveguide arrays by structuring the coupling constant: Towards discrete diffractive optics

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3148-3156

  Belabas, Nadia ^a   Bouchoule, Sophie ^a   Sagnes, Isabelle ^a   Levenson, Juan Ariel ^a   Minot, Christophe ^a,b   Moison, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLED MODE THEORY; COUPLED WAVEGUIDES; COUPLING CONSTANTS; DISCRETE STRUCTURE; LIGHT FLOW; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

LIGHT;

EID: 61549139667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003148     Document Type: Article

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