• DocumentCode
    2252119
  • 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
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951104