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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 3, 289(2019)

Demonstration of an on-chip TE-pass polarizer using a silicon hybrid plasmonic grating

Bowen Bai1, Fenghe Yang1,2, and Zhiping Zhou1,2、*
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 2Peking University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen 518057, China
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    Category: Silicon Photonics

    Received: Nov. 23, 2018

    Accepted: Jan. 11, 2019

    Published Online: Feb. 20, 2019

    The Author Email: Zhiping Zhou (zjzhou@pku.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000289

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