Polarimetry for Photonic Integrated Circuits

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) play a key role in a wide range of applications. Very often, the performance of PICs depends strongly on the state of polarization of light. Classically, this is regarded as undesirable, but more and more applications emerge that make explicit use of polarization...

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Published inApplied sciences Vol. 9; no. 15; p. 2987
Main Authors Baier, Moritz, Schoenau, Axel, Soares, Francisco M., Schell, Martin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 2019
Subjects
Calibration
Integrated circuits
Lasers
optical characterization
optical polarization
Optics
photonic integrated circuits
Photonics
polarimetry
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Summary:Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) play a key role in a wide range of applications. Very often, the performance of PICs depends strongly on the state of polarization of light. Classically, this is regarded as undesirable, but more and more applications emerge that make explicit use of polarization dependence. In either case, the characterization of the polarization properties of a PIC can be a nontrivial task. We present a way of characterizing PICs in terms of their full Müller matrix, yielding a complete picture of their polarization properties. The approach is demonstrated by carrying out measurements of fabricated PICs.
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ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/app9152987