Analysis of the TE-Pass or TM-Pass metal-clad polarizer with a resonant buffer layer

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1234-1241

  Li, Guangyuan ^a   Xu, Anshi ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Finite element method (FEM); Metal clad waveguides; Modal loss; Normal mode analysis; Optical polarizers

Indexed keywords

BUFFER LAYERS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; METALS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER); WAVEGUIDES;

BAND-STOP CHARACTERISTICS; FABRICATION TOLERANCES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (FEM); INPUT AND OUTPUT (I/O); INTERACTION LENGTH; METAL-CLAD; MODE COUPLINGS; NORMAL MODE ANALYSIS (NMA); OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); TE AND TM MODES; WAVEGUIDE DESIGN;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 46349108282     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.917039     Document Type: Article

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