High performance and compact polarization beam splitter based on silicon-on-insulator subwavelength grating coupler

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9047, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yang, Junbo ^a,b   Shao, Zhengzheng ^a   Zhou, Kuo ^a   Xu, Suzhi ^a   Xu, Jia ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor references; Polarization beam splitter; Silicon on insulator; Subwavelength grating

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FABRICATION; LIGHT EXTINCTION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTONICS; POLARIZATION; PRISMS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

COMPACT POLARIZATION; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; COMPLEMENTARY METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES; HIGH EXTINCTION RATIOS; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; THE RIGOROUS COUPLEDWAVE ANALYSES (RCWA); WIDE OPERATION BANDWIDTH;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 84899992177     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2041765     Document Type: Conference Paper

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