Experimental confirmation of phase relationships of multimode interference splitters using a shearing-type near-field Sagnac interferometer

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 937-939

  Kareenahalli, S ^a   Dagenais, M ^a   Stone, Dennis ^b   Tayag, Tristan J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fourier transforms; Multimode interference (MMI) splitter; Near field sagnac interferometer; Phase measurement

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE MEASUREMENT; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI) SPLITTERS; NEAR FIELD SAGNAC INTERFEROMETERS;

OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS;

EID: 0031189064     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.593357     Document Type: Article

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