An Integrated Photonic Mach—Zehnder Interferometer with No Electrodes for Sensing Electric Fields

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 1092-1098

  Naghski, David H ^a   Boyd, Joseph T ^a   Jackson, Howard E ^a   Sriram, S ^b   Kingsley, Stuart A ^b   Latess, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b Department of Physics University of Cincinnati ^*  (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0028447684     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.296204     Document Type: Article

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