Minimizing temperature sensitivity of silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1879-1887

  Guha, Biswajeet ^a   Gondarenko, Alexander ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

A-THERMAL; CMOS COMPATIBLE; NOVEL DESIGN; SPECTRAL SHIFT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 76149084832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001879     Document Type: Article

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