Birefringence Compensation Applying Double-Core Waveguiding Structures

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 206-208

  Worhoff K ^a   Offrein, B J ^b   Lambeck, P V ^a   Bona, G L ^b   Driessen, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Birefringence compensation; Chemical vapor deposition; Integrated optics; Silicon oxynitride; Telecommunication

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

DOUBLE CORE WAVEGUIDING STRUCTURES; SILICON OXYNITRIDE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0033079715     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.740705     Document Type: Article

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