Radiation- and bound-mode propagation in rectangular, multimode dielectric, channel waveguides with sidewall roughness

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 4151-4163

  Papakonstantinou, Ioannis ^a,b   James, Richard ^a   Selviah, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coupled power theory; Optical interconnects; Propagation loss; Radiation modes; Sidewall roughness

Indexed keywords

BOUND MODE; CALCULATION METHODS; CHANNEL WAVEGUIDE; COUPLED POWER THEORY; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; EQUILIBRIUM DISTANCES; FOURIER DECOMPOSITION; MODE PROPAGATION; MULTIMODES; NON-LINEAR; PROPAGATING MODE; PROPAGATION LOSS; RADIATION MODE; RADIATION MODES; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SIDEWALL ROUGHNESS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; WALL ROUGHNESS;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PLASMA FILLED WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

RADIATION;

EID: 69849096689     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2022766     Document Type: Article

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