Proposal for a grating waveguide serving as both a polarization splitter and an efficient coupler for silicon-on-insulator nanophotonic circuits

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 242-244

  Tang, Yongbo ^a,b   Dai, Daoxin ^a,b   He, Sailing ^a,b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Grating couplers; Integrated optics; Polarization splitters; Silicon on insulator (SOI) technology; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

GRATING COUPLERS; GRATING WAVEGUIDES; NANOPHOTONIC CIRCUITS; NANOPHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; OPTIMIZED STRUCTURES; OUTPUT PORTS; POLARIZATION SPLITTERS; POLARIZED WAVE; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI) TECHNOLOGY; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONICS; POLARIZATION; WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 77049105875     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2010528     Document Type: Article

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