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Design and Development of Some SU-8 Wire Waveguide Structures

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Photonic Waveguide Components on Silicon Substrate

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This chapter deals with the design and development of wire waveguide structures, viz. directional coupler and micro-ring resonator using SU-8 polymer. For optical integrated circuits based on micro-ring resonators (MRRs), one needs to know the coupling coefficients between straight and curved waveguides, and two curved waveguides accurately to compute the resonance characteristics of a single micro-ring and two coupled micro-rings.

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    Pallab Banerji & Pranabendu Ganguly

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Samanta, S., Banerji, P., Ganguly, P. (2020). Design and Development of Some SU-8 Wire Waveguide Structures. In: Photonic Waveguide Components on Silicon Substrate . SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1311-4_4

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