Large tuning of birefringence in two strip silicon waveguides via optomechanical motion

Jing Ma; Michelle L. Povinelli

doi:10.1364/FIO.2009.FThF5

Frontiers in Optics 2009/Laser Science XXV/Fall 2009 OSA Optics & Photonics Technical Digest
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2009),
paper FThF5
•https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2009.FThF5

Large tuning of birefringence in two strip silicon waveguides via optomechanical motion

Jing Ma and Michelle L. Povinelli

Frontiers in Optics 2009

San Jose, California United States
11–15 October 2009
ISBN: 978-1-55752-878-0

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J. Ma and M. L. Povinelli, "Large tuning of birefringence in two strip silicon waveguides via optomechanical motion," in Frontiers in Optics 2009/Laser Science XXV/Fall 2009 OSA Optics & Photonics Technical Digest, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2009), paper FThF5.

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Abstract

Adjusting the separation between two strip waveguides by an optical force, we obtain widely tunable birefringence dependent on the separation. The maximum difference of phase birefringence before and after tuning is calculated to be 0.026.

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