A new waveguide switch/modulator for integrated optics
- 15 May 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 26 (10), 562-564
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.87992
Abstract
A waveguide optical switch and/or modulator device is described that uses a single‐mode waveguide version of the Mach‐Zehnder interferometer. A mode selective branching waveguide is used for switching, and modulation can be accomplished without external polarizers in single‐mode waveguides. The operation of a 1×2 switch fabricated by diffusion techniques in ZnSe is described.Keywords
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