Large tuning of birefringence in two strip silicon waveguides via optomechanical motion

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 17818-17828

  Ma, Jing ^a   Povinelli, Michelle L ^a  

^a Powell Hall of Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GROUP DELAY; POLARIZATION; PUMPS; WAVEGUIDES;

DIFFERENTIAL GROUP DELAY; GROUP BIREFRINGENCE; OPTOMECHANICAL; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; PARALLEL STRIPS; PHASE BIREFRINGENCE; POLARIZATION CONVERSION; SILICON WAVEGUIDE;

BIREFRINGENCE;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 70349660234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.017818     Document Type: Article

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