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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2005
Filed:
May. 21, 2003
San-liang Lee, Taipei, TW;
Yen-juei Lin, Taipei, TW;
San-Liang Lee, Taipei, TW;
Yen-Juei Lin, Taipei, TW;
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, TW;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a constructing method and device for an optical passive component by using an improved structure of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. This improved structure of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer is composed of two MMI beam splitters, a curved channel waveguide and a periodic segment waveguide for being separately used as the beam-splitting components, the curved arm and the straight arm of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer. In the inventive MMI beam splitter, a sub-area in the MMI waveguide is a periodic segment waveguide having a plurality of segments. By adjusting the number of the segments of the periodic segment waveguide in the MMI waveguide, the beam-splitting ratio of the MMI beam splitter can be arbitrarily adjusted. By adjusting the segment period and the duty cycle of the straight arm of the Mach-Zehnder interferometer, the required length of the straight arm can be efficiently shortened.