Integrated Magneto-Optical Devices for On-Chip Photonic Systems

Abstract

The objective of this program was to develop magneto-optical (MO) materials to enable nonreciprocal optical devices for the emerging standardized photonic integrated circuit (PIC) fabrication processes that include a range of optical and radio frequency (RF) photonic devices such as low-loss interconnect waveguides, power splitters, filters, as well as active amplifiers, lasers, optical modulators and photodetectors. Designs were made for resonator and Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) isolator devices based on optical modeling, for both transverse-electric (TE) and transverse-magnetic (TM) polarization.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1039146

Entities

People

  • Caroline Anne Ross
  • Juejun Hu

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Crystals
  • Diffraction
  • Electron Beam Lithography
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Fabrication
  • Governments
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Interferometers
  • Mach Zehnder Interferometers
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Photonic Integrated Circuits
  • Resonators
  • Single Crystals
  • Waveguides

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy