• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 5, Issue 6, 578 (2017)
Xia Chen*, Milan M. Milosevic, David J. Thomson, Ali Z. Khokhar, Yohann Franz, Antoine F. J. Runge, Sakellaris Mailis, Anna C. Peacock, and Graham T. Reed
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  • Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.5.000578 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Xia Chen, Milan M. Milosevic, David J. Thomson, Ali Z. Khokhar, Yohann Franz, Antoine F. J. Runge, Sakellaris Mailis, Anna C. Peacock, Graham T. Reed. Post-fabrication phase trimming of Mach–Zehnder interferometers by laser annealing of germanium implanted waveguides[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(6): 578 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    We demonstrate a novel high-accuracy post-fabrication trimming technique to fine-tune the phase of integrated Mach–Zehnder interferometers, enabling permanent correction of typical fabrication-based phase errors. The effective index change of the optical mode is 0.19 in our measurement, which is approximately an order of magnitude improvement compared to previous work with similar excess optical loss. Our measurement results suggest that a phase accuracy of 0.078 rad was achievable with active feedback control.
    Port1:T1=0.5×Eo2[1+sin(Δϕ)],(1a)

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    Port2:T2=0.5×Eo2[1sin(Δϕ)],(1b)

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    Δϕ=ϕo+C×ΔL,(2)

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    neff=C·λ/(2π)=0.19.(3)

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    Xia Chen, Milan M. Milosevic, David J. Thomson, Ali Z. Khokhar, Yohann Franz, Antoine F. J. Runge, Sakellaris Mailis, Anna C. Peacock, Graham T. Reed. Post-fabrication phase trimming of Mach–Zehnder interferometers by laser annealing of germanium implanted waveguides[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(6): 578
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