CMOS-compatible highly efficient polarization splitter and rotator based on a double-etched directional coupler

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2489-2496

  Guan, Hang ^a,b   Novack, Ari ^a,b   Streshinsky, Matthew ^a,b   Shi, Ruizhi ^a,b   Fang, Qing ^a   Lim, Andy Eu Jin ^a   Lo, Guo Qiang ^a   Baehr Jones, Tom ^c   Hochberg, Michael ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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EID: 84893954584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.002489     Document Type: Article

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