• DocumentCode
    159340
  • Title

    Design of polarization-independent optical isolator with amorphous silicon waveguide

  • Author

    Shoji, Yozo ; Miura, Kiyotaka ; Okada, Yoshitaka ; Yokoi, Hiroshi ; Mizumoto, Tetsuya

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    27-29 Aug. 2014
  • Firstpage
    171
  • Lastpage
    172
  • Abstract
    A polarization-independent optical isolator with amorphous silicon waveguide is proposed and designed. The amorphous silicon waveguide is formed along the lateral wall of magneto-optic garnet to provide nonreciprocal phase shifts for TE and TM modes.
  • Keywords
    garnets; magneto-optical devices; optical design techniques; optical isolators; optical phase shifters; optical waveguides; silicon; Si; TE modes; TM modes; amorphous silicon waveguide; magneto-optic garnet; nonreciprocal phase shifts; polarization-independent optical isolator design; Isolators; Magnetooptic effects; Optical device fabrication; Optical films; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization; Optical waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Paris
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-2282-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/Group4.2014.6961974
  • Filename
    6961974