Integrated polarization rotator/converter by stimulated Raman adiabatic passage

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 17097-17107

  Xiong, Xiao ^a   Zou, Chang Ling ^a   Ren, Xi Feng ^a   Guo, Guang Can ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; STIMULATED EMISSION;

ADIABATIC CONVERSIONS; HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION; OPTICAL DEVICE DESIGN; PHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; POLARIZATION CONVERSION; POLARIZATION ROTATOR; STIMULATED RAMAN ADIABATIC PASSAGE; VERTICAL POLARIZATION;

WAVEGUIDES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; ROTATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ROTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84880563266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.017097     Document Type: Article

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