Title :
Silicon waveguide optical circulator employing nonreciprocal phase shift
Author :
Takei, Ryohei ; Shoji, Yuya ; Mizumoto, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
This paper proposes an optical circulator employing a nonreciprocal phase shift with a silicon waveguide. Two types of optical circulator are investigated, a perfectly circulating 4-port optical circulator and a 3-port optical circulator.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; finite difference time-domain analysis; optical circulators; optical couplers; optical waveguides; silicon; 3-port optical circulator; FDTD method; MMI coupler; Si; nonreciprocal phase shift; perfectly circulating 4-port optical circulator; silicon waveguide optical circulator; silicon wire waveguide; Arm; Magnetooptic effects; Optical coupling; Optical devices; Optical films; Optical interferometry; Optical propagation; Optical waveguides; Phase shifting interferometry; Silicon; FDTD method; MMI coupler; component; nonreciprocal phase shift; optical circulator; silicon wire waveguide;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP '09. 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4402-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1949-2081
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338332
