Polymeric Mach Zehnder Interferometer Using Serially Coupled Microring Resonators

Abstract

We propose a novel geometry for a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in which one arm of the interferometer consists of serially coupled microresonators and the other a simple ridge waveguide. The device was fabricated in an optical polymer and its spectral characteristics were measured at telecommunications wavelengths. The serially coupled rings are modeled using a simple transfer matrix approach. Good agreement is found between the measurement and the theory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 20, 2003
Accession Number
AD1021781

Entities

People

  • Amnon Yariv
  • George T. Paloczi
  • Shayan Mookherjea
  • Yanyi Huang

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coefficients
  • Communication Systems
  • Dielectric Waveguides
  • Electron Microscopes
  • Experimental Data
  • Filters
  • Frequency Conversion
  • Group Velocity
  • Interferometers
  • Mach Zehnder Interferometers
  • Measurement
  • Microscopes
  • Optical Waveguides
  • Optics
  • Photonic Crystals
  • Resonators
  • Waveguides

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Microwave Engineering.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.