Mode-evolution-based polarization rotator-splitter design via simple fabrication process

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 10163-10169

  Yuan, Wangqing ^a,b   Kojima, Keisuke ^a   Wang, Bingnan ^a   Koike Akino, Toshiaki ^a   Parsons, Kieran ^a   Nishikawa, Satoshi ^c   Yagyu, Eiji ^c  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^c MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; LIGHT EXTINCTION;

ETCHED STRUCTURES; FABRICATION PROCESS; FABRICATION TOLERANCES; INP SUBSTRATES; MODE CONVERTER; MODE-EVOLUTION-BASED POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION CONVERSION; POLARIZATION EXTINCTION RATIO; SECOND ORDERS; TE AND TM MODES; TE MODE; TM MODES; TOTAL LENGTH; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

POLARIZATION;

INDIUM; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INDIUM; PHOSPHINES; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84861148365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.010163     Document Type: Article

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