Homogeneous and isotropic bends to tunnel waves through multiple different/equal waveguides along arbitrary directions

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13020-13030

  Han, Tiancheng ^a,b   Qiu, Cheng Wei ^a   Dong, Jian Wen ^c   Tang, Xiaohong ^b   Zouhdi, Said ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

ANISOTROPIC MATERIAL; ARBITRARY DIRECTION; BEND REGIONS; CROSS SECTION; GENERAL EXPRESSION; ISOTROPIC MATERIALS; MODE DISTORTION; NONMAGNETICS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79959907587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013020     Document Type: Article

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