DocumentCode
282069
Title
Roughness scattering into substrate radiation modes of rib waveguides
Author
Hewson-Browne, R.C. ; Kendall, P.C. ; Quinney, D.A.
Author_Institution
Sheffield Univ., UK
fYear
1989
fDate
32665
Abstract
An estimate of roughness scattering into substrate radiation modes of semiconductor rib waveguides manufactured from III-V compounds is obtained. A guided mode is supposed to be incident upon a corrugated section of the rib sidewall. It is found that scattering into substrate radiation modes considerably exceeds that into slab modes (i.e. surface waves)
Keywords
III-V semiconductors; integrated optics; optical waveguides; substrates; III-V compounds; corrugated section; guided mode; integrated optics; optical waveguides; rib sidewall; roughness scattering; semiconductor rib waveguides; substrate radiation modes;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Integrated Optics, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
London
Type
conf
Filename
198611
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