Polymeric Mach-Zehnder interferometer using serially coupled microring resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 2666-2671

  Paloczi, George T ^a   Huang, Yanyi ^a   Yariv, Amnon ^a   Mookherjea, Shayan ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER (MZI); MICRORING RESONATORS; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 1042268348     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002666     Document Type: Article

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