• DocumentCode
    3127339
  • Title

    Waveguide Birefringence in Asymmetric Silicon-on-Insulator Nanowires

  • Author

    Duchesne, David ; Morandotti, Roberto ; Cheben, Pavel ; Lamontagne, Boris ; Xu, Danxia ; Janz, Siegfried

  • Author_Institution
    Energie, Materiaux et Telecommun., Inst. Nat. de la Recherche Sci., Varennes, Que.
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    Oct. 2006
  • Firstpage
    314
  • Lastpage
    315
  • Abstract
    A large group index birefringence of 0.6 is experimentally obtained by a polarisation beating technique in a silicon-on-insulator nano-waveguide. Using the Fabry-Perot resonance method we also determine the group index for two orthogonal polarisations
  • Keywords
    birefringence; integrated optics; light polarisation; nanowires; optical testing; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; Fabry-Perot resonance method; Si-SiO2; asymmetric silicon-on-insulator nanowires; group index; nano-waveguide; orthogonal polarisations; polarisation beating technique; waveguide birefringence; Birefringence; Fabry-Perot; Loss measurement; Nanowires; Optical polarization; Optical reflection; Resonance; Silicon on insulator technology; Tellurium; Waveguide components;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, Que.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9555-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0-7803-9555-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2006.279092
  • Filename
    4054183