• DocumentCode
    3112122
  • Title

    Imprinting of thermo-optic polymer-waveguide Mach-Zehnder interferometer with bottom-up electric heating

  • Author

    Lor, K.P. ; Chiang, K.S. ; Liu, Q. ; Chan, H.P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    13-17 July 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a new approach of fabricating a thermo-optic polymer-waveguide Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). The MZI is fabricated with an imprinting technique, where the electrode heater is formed at the bottom of the waveguide substrate.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electric heating; optical waveguides; thermo-optical devices; bottom-up electric heating; electrode heater; imprinting technique; thermo-optic polymer-waveguide Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Dielectric substrates; Electrodes; Etching; Lithography; Optical attenuators; Optical polymers; Optical waveguides; Resistance heating; Silicon; Thermooptical devices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2009. OECC 2009. 14th
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4102-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4103-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2009.5214416
  • Filename
    5214416