Polarization-independent thermooptic phase shifters in silicon-oxynitride waveguides

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1483-1485

  Offrein, B J ^a   Jubin, D ^b   Koster, T ^a,b   Brunschwiler, T ^a   Horst, F ^a   Wiesmann, D ^a   Meijer, I ^a   Petit, M Sousa ^a   Webb, D ^a   Germann, R ^a   Bona, G L ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NKT Holding AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Integrated optics; Optical planar waveguides; Thermooptic effects

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; PHASE SHIFTERS;

OXYNITRIDE; THERMOOPTIC;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 2942726575     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.826729     Document Type: Article

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