T. Suhara et al., MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED-OPTIC POSITION DISPLACEMENT SENSOR USING WAVE-GUIDE GRATINGS AND QW-DFB LASER/, IEEE photonics technology letters, 7(10), 1995, pp. 1195-1197
A monolithic fully-integrated interferometer position/displacement sen
sor is proposed. The device is implemented with waveguide grating comp
onents, a GRIN SCH SQW DFB laser and photodiodes. A prototype device o
f 6.5 x 2.0 mm(2) chip size and 0.4 x 0.4 mm(2) sensing beam aperture
is fabricated, and the sensor operation of submicron resolution is dem
onstrated.