Novel Silica-Based Waveguide-Type Polarization Beam Splitters Using Trenches Filled With Low-Refractive-Index Material

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5668-5674

  Ito, Jiro ^a,b   Tsuda, Hiroyuki ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tsuda Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; optical beam splitting; optical planar waveguides; optical polarization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008048154     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2009.2033616     Document Type: Article

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