DocumentCode
528109
Title
Design and fabrication of thermo-optic polymer Mach-Zehnder interferometers based on the bottom-heating approach
Author
Lor, K.P. ; Chiang, K.S. ; Liu, Q. ; Chan, H.P.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. Eng., City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China
fYear
2010
fDate
5-9 July 2010
Firstpage
58
Lastpage
59
Abstract
We present two designs of polymer Mach-Zehnder interferometers to demonstrate the bottom-heating approach for the realization of thermo-optic waveguide devices. The more efficient design requires an electric power of 17 mW for a π-phase shift.
Keywords
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; heating; optical polymers; optical waveguides; thermo-optical devices; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; bottom-heating approach; thermooptic polymer; thermooptic waveguide devices; Electrodes; Heating; Optical attenuators; Optical waveguides; Polymers; Substrates;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2010 15th
Conference_Location
Sapporo
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-6785-3
Type
conf
Filename
5588226
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