• DocumentCode
    1696613
  • Title

    Waveguide polarization-independent optical circulator using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer

  • Author

    Shintaku, T. ; Sugimoto, N. ; Shimokozono, M. ; Tate, A. ; Kubota, E. ; Kozawaguchi, H. ; Ishii, M. ; Inoue, Y.

  • Author_Institution
    NTT Opto-Electron. Labs., Ibaraki, Japan
  • Volume
    5
  • fYear
    1997
  • Firstpage
    57
  • Abstract
    We propose and realize a new polarization-independent optical circulator using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer which does not need a polarization-beam splitter. We obtain 14.1-23.7 dB isolation and 3.0-3.3 dB insertion loss at λ=1.55 μm
  • Keywords
    optical planar waveguides; 1.55 mum; 3 to 3.3 dB; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; dB insertion loss; dB isolation; polarization-beam splitter; polarization-independent optical circulator; waveguide polarization-independent optical circulator;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Integrated Optics and Optical Fibre Communications, 11th International Conference on, and 23rd European Conference on Optical Communications (Conf. Publ. No.: 448)
  • Conference_Location
    Edinburgh
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-85296-697-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/cp:19971611
  • Filename
    632778
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1696613