Birefringence compensation in silicon-on-insulator planar waveguide demultiplexers using a buried oxide layer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4997, Issue , 2003, Pages 181-189

  Cheben, P ^a   Xu, D X ^a   Janz, S ^a   Delage A ^a   Dalacu, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Demultiplexers; Polarization dependent loss (PDL); Silicon on insulator; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; DEMULTIPLEXING; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDE DEMULTIPLEXERS;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0042360633     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.476661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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