An electrically tunable multimode interference (MMI) coupler/splitter is demonstrated. The device operates by modifying the phase of the multiple self-images that are formed around the midpoint of the MMI structure. This provides a simple way to fine-tune the 50∶50 output power split ratio or other arbitrary ratio.
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May-Arrioja et al. (2007) studied this question.