[WP-E] Poster Session 2

[WP-E-15] Fabrication of an MZI waveguide with tapered MMI couplers for optical switches featuring liquid crystal

○Motoya Okazaki¹, Yuta Nagano¹, Yoshiki Hayama¹, Katsumi Nakatsuhara¹ (1. Kanagawa Institute of Technology (Japan))

Keywords:

Optical switches and channel selecting/routing devices for photonic network

MZI using MMI couplers with a structure that uses an aperture to reduce the size was fabricated. The experimental results of the MZI, which is using MMI extremely smaller than the previous one, are reported.