How small can a microring resonator be and yet be polarization independent?

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2821-2835

  Ang, Thomas Yong Long ^a   Lim, Soon Thor ^b   Lee, Shuh Ying ^a   Png, Ching Eng ^b   Chin, Mee Koy ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOSSES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; POLARIZATION; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

HIGH-DENSITY INTEGRATION; POLARIZATION DEPENDENCY; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT; POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY; RESIDUAL BIREFRINGENCE; SILICON PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; STRUCTURAL POLARIZATION; WAVEGUIDE CROSS SECTION;

RESONATORS;

EID: 67249122670     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002821     Document Type: Article

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