Study of polarization diversity circuit in silicon photonics

• Main Author: Lee, Tze Jun.
• Other Authors: Shum Ping
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Optics, optoelectronics, photonics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15805
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A light source can be broken down into its electric field vectors; the Transverse Electric (TE) and the Transverse Magnetic (TM). Structural birefringence causes the high frequency TE and TM waves to travel at different speeds. This causes the waves to arrive at their destinations with a phase diffe...