• 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