Rigorous modeling of lateral leakage loss in SOI thin-ridge waveguides and couplers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 486-488

  Nguyen, Thach G ^a   Tummidi, Ravi S ^b   Koch, Thomas L ^b   Mitchell, Arnan ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaky waves; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Silicon on insulator (SOI) technology

Indexed keywords

LATERAL DIRECTIONS; LEAKAGE LOSS; LEAKY WAVES; MODE COUPLING; MODE MATCHING TECHNIQUE; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; RIGOROUS MODELING; SILICON ON INSULATOR;

ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC LEAKAGE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70350437077     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2013965     Document Type: Article

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