• DocumentCode
    1779095
  • Title

    Side lobe suppression in wavelength characteristics of the grating loaded in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer waveguide

  • Author

    Hayama, Yoshiki ; Nakatsuhara, Katsumi ; Takeda, Masayuki ; Kato, Akifumi

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Kanagawa Inst. of Technol., Atsugi, Japan
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    12-16 Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    58
  • Lastpage
    59
  • Abstract
    We propose a silicon waveguide Mach-Zehnder interferometer with weighted grating structures for a tunable add-drop filter. Theoretically and experimentally obtained wavelength characteristics with suppressed side lobes in the proposed device are reported.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; diffraction gratings; elemental semiconductors; optical filters; optical tuning; optical waveguides; silicon; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Mach-Zehnder interferometer waveguide; Si; grating; side lobe suppression; silicon waveguide; tunable add-drop filter; weighted grating structures; Gratings; Optical bistability; Optical device fabrication; Optical filters; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995208
  • Filename
    6995208