Higher-order-mode assisted silicon-on-insulator 90 degree polarization rotator

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 20694-20699

  Yue, Yang ^a   Zhang, Lin ^a   Song, Muping ^b   Beausoleil, Raymond G ^c   Willner, Alan E ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; WAVEGUIDES;

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; HIGHER-ORDER MODES; MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION CONVERSION; POLARIZATION ROTATOR; WAVE COUPLING;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 70749144379     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.020694     Document Type: Article

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