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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995208
