Generalized characteristics of photo-elastic birefringence in polymer strip waveguides

Large tuning of birefringence in two strip silicon waveguides via optomechanical motion.

We present an optomechanical method to tune phase and group birefringence in parallel silicon strip waveguides. We first calculate the deformation of suspended, parallel strip waveguides due to optical forces. We optimize the frequency and polarization of the pump light to obtain a 9 nm deformation for an optical power of 20 mW. Widely tunable phase and group birefringence can be achieved by va...

Birefringence of GaNÕAlGaN optical waveguides

We have experimentally studied the birefringence of wurtzite GaN grown on a sapphire substrate. The measurements were done with single-mode GaN/AlGaN planar optical waveguides on c-plane grown heterostructure films. The refractive indices were found to be different for signal optical field perpendicular or parallel to the crystal c axis (n'Þn i). More importantly, we found an approximately 10% ...

Birefringence of GaN/AlGaN optical waveguides

Elastic waves in helical waveguides

Strain-Dependent Birefringence Of Elastic Polymers

The optical parameters (refractive index, absorption coefficient) of opaque dielectric materials can be measured with terahertz (THz) Time-Domain spectroscopy (TDS). By using a THz beam of known polarization and measuring both components of the transmitted THz field, it is possible to determine the birefringence present in an anisotropic material. In this work we used polarization sensitive (PS...