Giant birefringence in multi-slotted silicon nanophotonic waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 8306-8316

  Yang, Shun Hui ^a   Cooper, Michael L ^b   Bandaru, Prabhakar R ^a   Mookherjea, Shayan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIREFRINGENCE; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

LENSED FIBERS; NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIMUM LATERAL WIDTH;

WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON;

EID: 44649162458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008306     Document Type: Article

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