Mapping the broadband polarization properties of linear 2D SOI photonic crystal waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 15603-15614

  Canning, John ^a,b   Vesen, Nina Ski ^a   Kristensen, Martin ^a   Frandsen, Lars H ^d   Lavrinenko, Andrei ^d   Martelli, Cicero ^a,c   Tetu, A ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

BROADBAND POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; BROADBAND SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 36249015498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015603     Document Type: Article

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