@inproceedings{4a86922b90ad4a4dbff0a903cd855a61,
title = "Proposal for a simple polarization converter based on integrated optical ion exchanged waveguide",
abstract = "A simple, compact, low-cost electro-optic polarization converter based on a nematic liquid crystal (LC) sandwiched between two ion-exchanged glass channel waveguides is proposed. A three-dimensional (3D) fully-vectorial (FV) finite difference beam propagation method (FDBPM) is used to simulate this optical device. The performance of the proposed polarization converter is analyzed numerically at zero and 5 V applied voltage for the case of strong anchoring of LC molecules to the surface of the waveguide. The polarization conversion efficiency is ∼65% at a wavelength of 1550 nm. The total length of the directional coupler structure based converter is only 724 μm.",
keywords = "Glass waveguide, Ion exchange, Liquid crystal, Optical polarization converter",
author = "Pengfei Wang and Gilberto Brambilla and Yuliya Semenova and Qiang Wu and Jie Zheng and Gerald Farrell",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1049/cp.2010.1246",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781849193146",
series = "IET Conference Publications",
number = "574 CP",
pages = "441--444",
booktitle = "9th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, ICOCN 2010",
edition = "574 CP",
note = "9th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, ICOCN 2010 ; Conference date: 24-10-2010 Through 27-10-2010",
}