title: Minimizing temperature sensitivity of silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometers.
abstract: We present a novel design approach for integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometers to minimize their temperature sensitivity and demonstrate, for the first time, near zero spectral shifts with temperature (approximately 0.005 nm/K) in these devices. This could lead to fully CMOS-compatible passively compensated athermal optical filters and modulators.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca 14853, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Biswajeet
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Guha
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gondarenko
authors.forename: Michal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lipson