Replicated Mach-Zehnder interferometers with focusing grating couplers for sensing applications

Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical

Volumn 39, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 295-299

  Kempen, Lothar U ^a   Kunz, Rino E ^a,b,c  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c R and D Optics Group of GREETAG Ltd   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evanescent field sensors; Focusing grating couplers; Integrated optics; Mach Zehnder interferometers; Replication; Stripe waveguides

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

FOCUSING GRATING COUPLERS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; STRIPE WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 0042262950     PISSN: 09254005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4005(97)80222-5     Document Type: Article

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