• DocumentCode
    3752676
  • 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
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microoptics Conference (MOC), 2015 20th
  • Print_ISBN
    978-4-8634-8487-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MOC.2015.7416456
  • Filename
    7416456