Experimental demonstration of an ultracompact polarization beamsplitter based on a multimode interference coupler with internal photonic crystals

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Shi, Yaocheng ^a,b,c   Shahid, Naeem ^c   Li, Mingyu ^a,b,c   Berrier, Audrey ^c,d   He, Sailing ^a,b,c   Anand, Srinivasan ^c  

^a JORCEP   (Sweden)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

InP; multimode interference; photonic crystal; polarization beamsplitter

Indexed keywords

AIR HOLES; EXTINCTION RATIOS; INP; MMI-COUPLER; MULTI-MODE INTERFERENCE; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE COUPLERS; OUTPUT PORTS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INTEGRATED OPTICS; POLARIZATION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 80855129213     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3454377     Document Type: Article

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