Power and polarization beam-splitters, mirrors, and integrated interferometers based on air-hole photonic crystals and lateral large index-contrast waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5617-5633

  Pottier, Pierre ^a   Mastroiacovo, Sara ^a   De La Rue, Richard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) SIMULATIONS; INDEX-CONTRAST WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION SEPARATORS;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 33745145539     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.005617     Document Type: Article

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