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[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)

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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.