Experimental demonstration of an ultracompact polarization beam splitter based on a bidirectional grating coupler

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7631, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wang, Zhechao ^a,b,c   Tang, Yongbo ^a,b,c   Zhu, Ning ^a,b,c   Wosinski, Lech ^a,b,c   Dai, Daoxin ^b,c   Westergren, Urban ^a,b,c   He, Sailing ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Zhejiang University   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Grating coupler; Integrated optics; Polarization beam splitter; Polarization diversity; Silicon on insulator

Indexed keywords

GRATING COUPLER; GRATING COUPLERS; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; SILICON ON INSULATOR;

INTEGRATED OPTICS; MICROSENSORS; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONICS; PRISMS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 77049088537     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.851621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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