Compact hybrid TM-pass polarizer for silicon-on-insulator platform

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2294-2298

  Alam, Muhammad ^a   Aitchsion, J Stewart ^a   Mojahedi, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

DIFFERENT LAYERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; HIGH INDEX; HYBRID WAVEGUIDES; LOW INDEX; METAL PLANE; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR PLATFORMS; WAVEGUIDE DIMENSIONS;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79958714084     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.002294     Document Type: Article

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