Ultracompact photonic crystal polarization beam splitter based on multimode interference

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 724-731

  Lu, Ming Feng ^a,b   Liao, Shan Mei ^a   Huang, Yang Tung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTICS; LATTICE CONSTANTS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; POLARIZATION; PRISMS;

EXTINCTION RATIOS; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; MULTI-MODE INTERFERENCE; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SELF IMAGING PRINCIPLE; TE AND TM MODES; THEORETICAL DESIGN;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY;

OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 76649112097     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000724     Document Type: Article

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