Design of a polarization-insensitive echelle grating demultiplexer based on silicon nanophotonic wires

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 860-862

  Zhu, Ning ^a,b   Song, Jun ^a,b   Wosinski, Lech ^c   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Zhejiang University   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG); Etched diffraction grating (EDG); Polarization compensation; Silicon on insulator (SOI) nanowire; Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 67149142269     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.921839     Document Type: Article

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