Modeling and design of bending waveguide based semiconductor polarization rotators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1379-1381

  Lui, Wayne W ^a,b   Magari, K ^a,b   Yoshimoto, N ^a,b   Oku, S ^a,b   Hirono, T ^b   Yokoyama, K ^a,b   Huang, W P ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coupled mode analysis; Modeling; Optical polarization; Waveguide bends

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

COUPLED MODE ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR POLARIZATION ROTATORS; WAVEGUIDE BENDS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0031257564     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.623269     Document Type: Article

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