Design of T-shaped nanophotonic wire waveguide for optical interconnection in H-tree network

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 26827-26838

  Kurt, H ^a   Giden, I H ^a   Citrin, D S ^b,c  

^a TOBB UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FORESTRY; INTEGRATION; NANOPHOTONICS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDE JUNCTIONS; WIRE;

BENDING LOSS; DIELECTRIC POST; GUIDED WAVE OPTICS; HIGH-DENSITY; HIGHLY DENSE; INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUIT; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; POWER SPLITTING; RADIATED MODE; T JUNCTIONS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; ULTRA-SMALL; WAVEGUIDE BRANCH; WIRE WAVE GUIDES;

WAVEGUIDES;

FORESTRY; INTEGRATION; NETWORKS; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN; WIRE;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84555223643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.026827     Document Type: Article

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