An integrated-nanophotonics polarization beamsplitter with 2.4×2.4μm 2 footprint

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 378-382

  Shen, Bing ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Polson, Randy ^b   Menon, Rajesh ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FABRICATION; LITHOGRAPHY; NANOPHOTONICS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; WAVEGUIDES;

EXTINCTION RATIOS; FABRICATION ERRORS; INPUT/OUTPUT; MULTIMODES; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; POLARIZATION STATE; SINGLE-MODE OUTPUT WAVEGUIDES; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84930173588     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.80     Document Type: Article

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