Shortened polarization beam splitters with two cascaded multimode interference sections

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 1538-1540

  Jiao, Yuqing ^a,b   Dai, Daoxin ^a,b   Shi, Yaocheng ^a,b   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JORCEP   (China)

Author keywords

Cascaded; Compact; Multimode interference (MMI); Polarization beam splitter (PBS); Short length

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; MULTI-MODE INTERFERENCE; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS; TOTAL LENGTH;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLE BEAMS; POLARIZATION; PRISMS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 77954920882     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2009.2029349     Document Type: Article

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