Photonic crystal Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on self-collimation

The authors design a photonic crystal Mach-Zehnder interferometer by utilizing the self-collimated beams and the bending and splitting mechanisms of line defects. Using this interferometer, they investigate the phase shift of the reflected and transmitted self-collimated beams over the line defects. In addition, on the basis of the intensity-asymmetric unidirectional-output design, they demonstrate that such interferometers can function as an intensity detector or an ultrafast optical switch when the material of photonic crystal is nonlinear.

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