Design and investigation of three-dimensional polarization-independent polymer Mach-Zehnder interferometers at 1550 nm
Category:- Journal; Year:- 2022
Discipline:- Physics Discipline
School:- Science, Engineering & Technology School
Abstract
We propose a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) which consists of a taper, a bending waveguide, and two
symmetrical arms. The structure is realized with organic-inorganic hybrid polymer materials and analyzed by a
commercially available RSoft CAD BeamPROP solver. We set the core width for input and output of the
Mach-Zehnder interferometer at 6 μm for single-mode propagation. This interferometer shows an excess loss
of 0.162 dB and has an efficiency of almost 96.4%. We also investigate the polarization dependency of this
interferometer varying the beam incident angles from 0-30 degrees and this investigation suggests that this
MZI shows polarization dependency when the light incident on the launched side of this MZI at for
transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) modes.
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