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Directional Couplers

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Directional couplers consist of closely neighboring waveguides, between which energy exchange can take place. Directional couplers can be applied to power splitting, to modulation or to the switching of light signals, but also as wavelength filters or as polarization selectors. The treatment of directional couplers uses the theory of coupled modes.

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  1. Abteilung Optoelektronik, Universität Ulm, Postfach 4066, D-89081, Ulm, Germany

    Professor Dr. Karl Joachim Ebeling

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Ebeling, K.J. (1993). Directional Couplers. In: Integrated Optoelectronics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78166-7_6

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