Design and test of silicon photonic Mach-Zehnder interferometers for data transmission applications

Abstract

In this paper we describe the layout of a Silicon Photonic chip, composed of two different Mach-Zehnder interferometers realized with SOI technology; we report the results obtained from the electromagnetic simulations, that have been performed splitting the MZIs in multiple components to extract the power transmission parameters and we also report the result of the measurements taken in lab. The aim of this study is to demonstrate the ability the Silicon photonics devices have to become the new generation of digital interconnects.