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Ring-coupled Mach–Zehnder interferometer optimized for sensing

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Abstract

We demonstrate numerically that the theoretical maximum sensitivity of a ring-coupled Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) optimized as a sensor is about 30% greater than the optimized sensitivity of a conventional single-bus ring sensor with an identical ring perimeter and loss. The ring-coupled MZI sensor also achieves its greater sensitivity with a 25% lower circulating power, which is useful for the suppression of undesirable nonlinear effects.

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