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
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