Compact Mach-Zehnder interferometer Ce:YIG/SOI optical isolators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 1653-1656

  Ghosh, Samir ^a   Keyvaninia, Shahram ^a   Shoji, Yuya ^b   Van Roy, Wim ^c   Mizumoto, Tetsuya ^b   Roelkens, Gunther ^a   Baets, Roel G ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Benzocyclobutene bonding; Ce:YIG; isolator; silicon on insulator (SOI)

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE BONDING; BENZOCYCLOBUTENE; BONDING LAYERS; ISOLATOR; NONRECIPROCAL PHASE SHIFT; OPTICAL ISOLATION; OPTICAL ISOLATORS; SILICON ON INSULATOR WAVEGUIDE; SILICON WAVEGUIDE;

BUTENES; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDE ISOLATORS;

EID: 84865714107     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2212426     Document Type: Article

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