Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 52, Issue 8, 0823002(2023)

Design of Low Loss Silicon Waveguide Bend with Width and Curvature Variations

Yue ZHOU... Yaohui SUN, Haoyu WU, Mengjia LU, Guohua HU, Binfeng YUN* and Yiping CUI |Show fewer author(s)
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  • Advanced Photonics Center,School of Electronic Science and Engineering,Southeast University,Nanjing 210096,China
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    Yue ZHOU, Yaohui SUN, Haoyu WU, Mengjia LU, Guohua HU, Binfeng YUN, Yiping CUI. Design of Low Loss Silicon Waveguide Bend with Width and Curvature Variations[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2023, 52(8): 0823002

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optical Device

    Received: Jan. 15, 2023

    Accepted: Apr. 4, 2023

    Published Online: Sep. 26, 2023

    The Author Email: YUN Binfeng (ybf@seu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20235208.0823002

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