Daiki Minemura, Shuyuan Liu, Y. Shoji, T. Mizumoto
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Abstract
We propose and numerically demonstrate a novel tunable TE-TM mode converter which consists of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) composed of 3-dB polarization couplers. The mode conversion is controlled by the phase difference between the two MZI arms.