Ultrabroadband silicon-on-insulator polarization beam splitter based on cascaded mode-sorting asymmetric Y-junctions

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Jing ^a,b   Qi, Minghao ^b   Xuan, Yi ^b   Huang, Haiyang ^a   Li, You ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Chen, Xin ^a   Jia, Qi ^a   Sheng, Zhen ^a   Wu, Aimin ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Wang, Xi ^a   Zou, Shichang ^a   Gan, Fuwan ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

broadband; polarization beam splitter (PBS); polarization diversity; silicon photonics

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; FITS AND TOLERANCES; METALS; MOS DEVICES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; PHOTONICS; POLARIZATION; PRISMS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

BROADBAND; COHERENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION BANDS; POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS; POLARIZATION DIVERSITY; POLARIZATION EXTINCTION RATIO; SILICON PHOTONICS;

SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84915748538     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2368780     Document Type: Article

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