Title :
Optical isolator for silicon-on-insulator circuits
Author :
Mizumoto, Tetsuya ; Shoji, Yuya
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo
Abstract :
An optical isolator is fabricated for silicon-on-insulator circuits. The isolator, which employs a nonreciprocal phase shift in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, is fabricated by directly bonding a magneto-optic garnet on a Si waveguide. A maximum isolation of 21 dB is obtained at 1559 nm.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical isolators; silicon-on-insulator; waveguides; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Si; Si waveguide; magneto-optic garnet; nonreciprocal phase shift; optical isolator; silicon-on-insulator circuits; Circuits; Garnets; Isolation technology; Isolators; Magnetooptic devices; Optical devices; Optical interferometry; Optical waveguides; Paper technology; Silicon on insulator technology;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brussels
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729082
