Title :
Optical isolator for silicon-on-insulator circuits
Author :
Mizumoto, T. ; Shoji, Y.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, 152-8552, Japan
Abstract :
An optical isolator is fabricated for silicon-on-insulator circuits. The isolator, which employs a nonreciprocal phase shift in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, is fabricated by directly bonding a magneto-optic garnet on a Si waveguide. A maximum isolation of 21 dB is obtained at 1559 nm.
Keywords :
Circuits; Garnets; High speed optical techniques; Isolators; Magnetooptic devices; Magnetooptic effects; Optical interferometry; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Silicon on insulator technology;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brussels, Belgium
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729243
