Polarization splitter using horizontal slot waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 3363-3369

  Zhang, Huijuan ^a   Huang, Ying ^a   Das, Suchandrima ^b,c   Li, Chao ^a   Yu, Mingbin ^a   Lo, Patrick Guo Qiang ^a   Hong, Minghui ^b   Thong, John ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL RESONATORS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COUPLING LENGTH; EXTINCTION RATIOS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; HIGH EXTINCTION RATIOS; HORIZONTAL SLOT WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; POLARIZATION SPLITTERS; SLOTTED WAVEGUIDES;

POLARIZATION;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MINIATURIZATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84874042367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.003363     Document Type: Article

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