Analysis of the birefringence of a silicon-on-insulator rib Waveguide

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1156-1161

  Dai, Daoxin ^a   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

RIB WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE-MODE FIBRES (SMF);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 1442331576     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001156     Document Type: Article

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