Design of silicon hollow waveguide in-line polarizer using a photonic crystal concept

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 88-94

  Badreldin, Tarek ^a   Madkour, Kareem ^a   Khalil, Diaa ^b  

^a MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Hollow waveguide; Multilayers; Optical MEMS; Photonic crystals; Polarizer

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; MEMS; MULTILAYERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EXTINCTION RATIO; HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL MEMS; POLARIZERS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 33847719970     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/9/1/015     Document Type: Article

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