Design and fabrication of a significantly shortened multimode interference coupler for polarization splitter application

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 72-74

  Hong, Jung Moo ^a   Ryu, Hyun Ho ^a   Park, Soon Ryong ^a   Jeong, Jae Wan ^a   Lee, Seung Gol ^a   Lee, El Hang ^a   Park, Se Geun ^a   Woo, Deokha ^b   Kim, Sunho ^b   Beom Hoan, O ^a  

^a Inha University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Multimode interferometer (MMI); Polarization splitter; Quasi state (QS); Waveguide

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLER; MULTIMODE INTERFEROMETER; QUASI STATE IMAGING EFFECT;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 0037249768     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.805803     Document Type: Article

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