Compact broadband polarizer based on shallowly-etched silicon-on-insulator ridge optical waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 27404-27415

  Dai, Daoxin ^a   Wang, Zhi ^a   Julian, Nick ^a   Bowers, John E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SILICON WAFERS;

EIGEN MODES; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL SYSTEMS; FUNDAMENTAL MODES; LEAKAGE LOSS; MODE SOLVERS; OPTICAL POLARIZERS; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAVEGUIDE; STRAIGHT WAVEGUIDES; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; THICK SOI; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

WAVEGUIDES;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 78650541477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.027404     Document Type: Article

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