AUTHOR=Lee Jong-Moo 

TITLE=Ultrahigh Temperature-Sensitive Silicon MZI with Titania Cladding

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Materials

VOLUME=2

YEAR=2015

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/materials/articles/10.3389/fmats.2015.00036

DOI=10.3389/fmats.2015.00036

ISSN=2296-8016

ABSTRACT=<p>We present a possibility of intensifying temperature sensitivity of a silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) by using a highly negative thermo-optic property of titania (TiO<sub>2</sub>). Temperature sensitivity of an asymmetric silicon MZI with a titania cladding is experimentally measured from +18 to −340 pm/°C depending on design parameters of MZI.</p>