Considerations for the design of asymmetrical machzehnder interferometers used as polarization beam splitters on a submicrometer silicon-on-insulator platform

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1808-1817

  Dai, Daoxin ^a,b   Wang, Zhi ^a,c   Bowers, John E ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

MachZehnder interferometer (MZI); polarization beam splitter (PBS); power splitter; silicon on insulator (SOI)

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL WAVELENGTH; FABRICATION ERRORS; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLERS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; OUTPUT PORTS; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTER (PBS); POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT; POWER SPLITTERS; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SUBMICROMETERS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; THERMAL COMPENSATION; THERMAL-OPTICAL EFFECT; TM POLARIZATION; WAVELENGTH SHIFT;

DESIGN; ERRORS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; PRISMS; WAVEGUIDES;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 79958057027     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2142392     Document Type: Article

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