Design of a compact photonic-crystal-based polarizing beam splitter

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1435-1437

  Liu, Tao ^a   Zakharian, Armis R ^b   Fallahi, Mahmoud ^a   Moloney, Jerome V ^b   Mansuripur, Masud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals (PCs); Polarizing beam splitters (PBSs)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS (PBSS);

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 23844500445     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.848278     Document Type: Article

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