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

Yue ZHOU; Yaohui SUN; Haoyu WU; Mengjia LU; Guohua HU; Binfeng YUN; Yiping CUI

doi:10.3788/gzxb20235208.0823002

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