A tunable polarization diversity silicon photonics filter

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13063-13072

  Zhang, Jing ^a,b   Zhang, Huijuan ^a   Chen, Shiyi ^a   Yu, Mingbin ^a   Lo, Guo Qiang ^a   Kwong, Dim Lee ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b Agency for Science   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EXTINCTION RATIOS; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; SILICON PHOTONICS; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

POLARIZATION;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON;

EID: 79959885124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013063     Document Type: Article

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