MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER POLARIZATION SPLITTER IN INGAASP INP/

Authors
SOLDANO LB DEVREEDE AH SMIT MK VERBEEK BH METAAL EG GROEN FH
Citation
Lb. Soldano et al., MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER POLARIZATION SPLITTER IN INGAASP INP/, IEEE photonics technology letters, 6(3), 1994, pp. 402-405
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
IEEE photonics technology letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
10411135
Volume
6
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
402 - 405
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-1135(1994)6:3<402:MIPSII>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
A passive TE/TM mode polarization splitter based on a Mach-Zehnder int erferometer is demonstrated. Insertion loss of 1.5 dB and extinction r atios of -19 dB for TE and -15 dB for TM have been measured at 1510-nm wavelength. The device attains large optical bandwidth employing a pa ir of multimode interference (MMI) couplers and a wavelength-tolerant birefringent structure.