Modeling bending losses of optical nanofibers or nanowires

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 4365-4369

  Yu, Huakang ^a   Wang, Shanshan ^a   Fu, Jian ^a   Qiu, Min ^b   Li, Yuhang ^c   Gu, Fuxing ^a   Tong, Limin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOFIBERS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

3D FDTD; BENDING LOSS; GUIDED LIGHT; MICROMETER LEVELS; OPTICAL NANOWIRES; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS;

BENDING (FORMING);

EID: 68749119642     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.004365     Document Type: Article

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