Title :
Flap-top interleaver by femtosecond laser writing of cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers in fused silica
Author :
Ng, Jason C. ; Li, Chengbo ; Herman, Peter R. ; Qian, Li
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Femtosecond laser writing of cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers were optimized in fused silica to form flat-top interleavers with 0.5-dB bandwidth of 10 nm and 15 dB extinction ratio that opens new directions in wavelength division multiplexing.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; extinction coefficients; high-speed optical techniques; laser materials processing; silicon compounds; SiO2; cascaded Mach-Zehnder Interferometers; extinction ratio; femtosecond laser writing; flap-top interleaver; fused silica; wavelength division multiplexing; Extinction ratio; Laser tuning; Optical waveguides; Silicon compounds; Ultrafast optics; Waveguide lasers; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
