Title :
Mach-Zehnder interferometer Si structures with weighted sampled grating waveguides featuring FLC cladding
Author :
Kentaro Sakakibara;Yoshiki Hayama;Masayuki Takeda;Akifumi Kato;Katsumi Nakatsuhara
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kanagawa Institute of Technology 1030 Shimo-ogino, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa, 243-0292, Japan
Abstract :
A silicon waveguide Mach-Zehnder interferometer with weighted grating structures for a tunable add-drop filter and ferroelectric liquid crystal cladding is proposed and fabricated. Bistable tuning operation with about 1.3-nm shift in wavelength characteristics was demonstrated.
Keywords :
"Gratings","Silicon","Optical waveguides","Optical switches","Optical filters","Optical interferometry","Photonics"
Conference_Titel :
Microoptics Conference (MOC), 2015 20th
Print_ISBN :
978-4-8634-8487-0
DOI :
10.1109/MOC.2015.7416456
