Title : 
Low cost wide waveguide gap polarization mode converter
         
        
            Author : 
Lingjie Wang ; Yanli Zhao ; Tianhong Zhou ; Zheng Chen ; Yuanzhong Xu ; Weidong Ma
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Optoelectron. Sci. & Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A new type of low cost polarization mode converter on basis of the segmented waveguide taper (SWT) has been proposed, which can reduce the excess loss drastically from 5dB to less than 1.5dB.
         
        
            Keywords : 
light polarisation; optical losses; optical waveguides; SWT; low cost wide waveguide gap polarization mode converter; segmented waveguide taper;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP), 2012 Asia
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Guangzhou
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-6274-0