Title :
Design of polarization-independent optical isolator with amorphous silicon waveguide
Author :
Shoji, Yozo ; Miura, Kiyotaka ; Okada, Yoshitaka ; Yokoi, Hiroshi ; Mizumoto, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
A polarization-independent optical isolator with amorphous silicon waveguide is proposed and designed. The amorphous silicon waveguide is formed along the lateral wall of magneto-optic garnet to provide nonreciprocal phase shifts for TE and TM modes.
Keywords :
garnets; magneto-optical devices; optical design techniques; optical isolators; optical phase shifters; optical waveguides; silicon; Si; TE modes; TM modes; amorphous silicon waveguide; magneto-optic garnet; nonreciprocal phase shifts; polarization-independent optical isolator design; Isolators; Magnetooptic effects; Optical device fabrication; Optical films; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization; Optical waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2282-6
DOI :
10.1109/Group4.2014.6961974
