Suppression of modal birefringence in InP-InGaAsP waveguides through use of compensated tensile strain

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-63

  Soole, J B D ^a,b   Caneau, C ^b   LeBlanc, H P ^b   Andreadakis, N C ^b   Rajhel, A ^b   Youtsey, C ^a,c   Adesida, I ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Filters; Integrated optics; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE;

BANDGAP COMPRESSIVE LAYERS;

FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS;

EID: 0030786247     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.554491     Document Type: Article

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