Polarization rotator based on silicon wire waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2628-2635

  Fukuda, Hiroshi ^a   Yamada, Koji ^a   Tsuchizawa, Tai ^a   Watanabe, Toshifumi ^a   Shinojima, Hiroyuki ^a   Itabashi, Sei Ichi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EXTINCTION RATIO; POLARIZATION ROTATORS; SILICON WIRE WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL ROTATION;

EID: 39749122096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.002628     Document Type: Article

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