Light guiding in a slot waveguide that includes an additional confining core region

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6408-6416

  Yinying, Xiao Li ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVEGUIDES;

CONSTANT DISPERSIONS; CORE LAYERS; CORE REGION; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; EXTENDED RANGE; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; LIGHT GUIDING; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; WAVE-GUIDING;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77949584685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006408     Document Type: Article

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