Design and analysis of an ultra-compact and ultra-wideband polarization beam splitter based on coupled plasmonic waveguide arrays

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 1448-1450

  Tai, Chao Yi ^a   Chang, Sheng Hsiung ^a   Chiu, TsenChieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Plasmons; Polarizing beam splitters (PBSs)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; INSERTION LOSSES; INTEGRATED OPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; PLASMONS; POLARIZATION;

COUPLED PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDE ARRAY; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTER; ULTRA-COMPACT POLARIZATION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND POLARIZATION;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 34548666973     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.903573     Document Type: Article

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