Title :
Integrated silicon grating waveguides with ferroelectric liquid crystal cladding for optical tunable wavelength filters
Author :
Kato, Akira ; Nakatsuhara, K. ; Hayama, Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Kanagawa Inst. of Technol., Atsugi, Japan
Abstract :
A tunable wavelength filter array with sampled grating Si-waveguides and ferroelectric liquid crystal cladding is proposed and fabricated. Bistable tuning operation with about 0.8-nm shift in wavelength characteristics was demonstrated.
Keywords :
arrayed waveguide gratings; cladding techniques; elemental semiconductors; ferroelectric liquid crystals; integrated optics; optical fabrication; optical tuning; silicon; Si; bistable tuning operation; ferroelectric liquid crystal cladding; integrated silicon grating waveguides; optical fabrication; optical tunable wavelength filter array; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Gratings; Optical filters; Photonics; Silicon; Tuning;
Conference_Titel :
Microoptics Conference (MOC), 2013 18th
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
