Fabrication tolerant polarization splitter and rotator based on a tapered directional coupler

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 20021-20027

  Ding, Yunhong ^a   Liu, Liu ^b   Peucheret, Christophe ^a   Ou, Haiyan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; FABRICATION; POLARIZATION;

FABRICATION ERRORS; FABRICATION TOLERANCES; HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; POLARIZATION SPLITTERS; SILICON ON INSULATOR; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SINGLE-STEP; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT; TAPERED STRUCTURE;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; ROTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; REFRACTOMETRY; ROTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84865795979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.020021     Document Type: Article

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