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Mach–Zehnder Interferometer: A Review of a Perfect All-Optical Switching Structure

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This article reviews Mach–Zehnder interferometer waveguiding structure-based optical switches in terms of their working principle, design, fabrication, and related performance issues. The effect of the material chosen and the use of tapered interferometric arms on the performance of such switching structures are also explained in brief. In the later part, discussion on the popular applications of the structure is given in brief.

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The author (A.I. Stanley) gratefully acknowledges the excellent design and simulation facilities available at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering for optics research at MNIT Jaipur and the tertiary education trust fund (TETFUND) awarded by Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki (Nigeria) to visit and work at MNIT Jaipur (India).

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    A. I. Stanley &  Ghanshyam Singh

  2. Department of EEE, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria

    A. I. Stanley &  James Eke

  3. Department of EEE, KEIO University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Hiroyuki Tsuda

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Stanley, A.I., Ghanshyam Singh, James Eke, Hiroyuki Tsuda (2016). Mach–Zehnder Interferometer: A Review of a Perfect All-Optical Switching Structure. In: Afzalpulkar, N., Srivastava, V., Singh, G., Bhatnagar, D. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Cognizance in Wireless Communication & Image Processing. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2638-3_48

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