Minimizing temperature sensitivity of silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometers
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- 15 January 2010
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 18 (3) , 1879-1887
Abstract
We present a novel design approach for integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometers to minimize their temperature sensitivity and demonstrate, for the first time, near zero spectral shifts with temperature (~0.005 nm/K) in these devices. This could lead to fully CMOS-compatible passively compensated athermal optical filters and modulators.Keywords
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