A Plasmonic based Ultracompact Polarization Beam Splitter on Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tan, Qilong ^a   Huang, Xuguang ^a   Zhou, Wen ^a   Yang, Kun ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84880348743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02206     Document Type: Article

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