Title :
Low-cost silicon photonic temperature sensor using broadband light source
Author :
Qingzhong Deng ; Xinbai Li ; Ruobing Chen ; Zhiping Zhou
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Peking Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
A silicon photonic temperature sensor based on a novel asymmetric balanced Mach-Zehnder Interferometer is proposed. This new structure enables temperature sensing using low-cost broadband light sources such as LED.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; elemental semiconductors; optical sensors; silicon; temperature sensors; Si; asymmetric balanced Mach-Zehnder Interferometer; broadband light source; low-cost silicon photonic temperature sensor; Broadband communication; Light sources; Optical waveguides; Silicon photonics; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Low-cost device; Mach-Zehnder Interferometer; Silicon photonics; Temperature sensor;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2014 IEEE 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2282-6
DOI :
10.1109/Group4.2014.6962033
