Authors:	Halir Robert, D. Vermeulen, G. Roelkens
Title:	Silicon-on-insulator tunable wavelength router with minimized polarization dependent loss
Format:	International Conference Proceedings
Publication date:	3/2010
Journal/Conference/Book:	The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC) 2010
Volume(Issue):	p.OWJ1
Location:	San Diego, CA, United States
DOI:	10.1364/ofc.2010.owj1
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Abstract

We demonstrate a novel polarization diversity scheme based on 2D grating couplers and a simple phase shifter to achieve polarization dependent loss as low as 0.15dB in an SOI wavelength router