Title : 
Small-sized Mach-Zehnder interferometer optical switch using thin film Ge2Sb2Te5 phase-change material
         
        
            Author : 
Moriyama, Takumi ; Kawashima, Hitoshi ; Kuwahara, Masashi ; Xiaomin Wang ; Asakura, Hideaki ; Tsuda, Hiroyuki
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Small-sized Mach-Zehnder Interferometer optical switch using Ge2Sb2Te5 thin films was fabricated. Two thin films of 1-μm-square were sufficient for switching. The switching operation was successfully demonstrated by pulsed laser irradiation.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; germanium compounds; optical fabrication; optical films; optical materials; optical switches; phase change materials; ternary semiconductors; Ge2Sb2Te5; Ge2Sb2Te5 thin films; pulsed laser irradiation; small-sized Mach-Zehnder interferometer optical switch; switching operation; thin film Ge2Sb2Te5 phase-change material; Optical device fabrication; Optical interferometry; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Phase change materials; Silicon;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Francisco, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-5575-2994-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1364/OFC.2014.Tu3E.4