Spectrally narrow polarisation conversion in a slow-light photonic crystal waveguide

Journal of the European Optical Society

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Canning, John ^a,b   Kristensen, Martin ^a   Skivesen, Nina ^a   Martelli, Cicero ^a,c   Têtu, Amélie ^a   Frandsen, Lars H ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Photonics; Polarisation; Silicon; SOI

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949200534     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19902573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2971/jeos.2009.09019     Document Type: Article

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