title: Polymeric Mach-Zehnder interferometer using serially coupled microring resonators.
abstract: We propose a novel geometry for a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in which one arm of the interferometer consists of serially coupled microresonators and the other a simple ridge waveguide. The device was fabricated in an optical polymer and its spectral characteristics were measured at telecommunications wavelengths. The serially coupled rings are modeled using a simple transfer matrix approach. Good agreement is found between the measurement and the theory.
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Paloczi
authors.forename: Yanyi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Amnon
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yariv
authors.forename: Shayan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mookherjea