Waveguide taper engineering using coordinate transformation technology

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 767-772

  Tichit, Paul Henri ^a   Burokur, Shah Nawaz ^a   De Lustrac, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; METAMATERIALS;

CO-ORDINATE TRANSFORMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC STRUCTURE; FINITE ELEMENT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETRIC STUDY; SPATIAL COORDINATES; WAVEGUIDE TAPERS;

WAVEGUIDES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 75249106894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.000767     Document Type: Article

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