Lateral leakage of TM-like mode in thin-ridge silicon-on-insulator bent waveguides and ring resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 7243-7252

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

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTICAL RESONATORS;

BENT WAVEGUIDES; CURVED WAVEGUIDES; HIGH-Q RESONATORS; LOW LOSS; MODE MATCHING; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; RING RESONATOR; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SILICON LASER; SILICON ON INSULATOR;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 77950223551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007243     Document Type: Article

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