Miroshnichenko, AndreyKivshar, Yuri2015-12-162015-12-160003-6951http://hdl.handle.net/1885/95070We introduce a concept of the Mach-Zehnder-Fano interferometer by inserting a cavity exhibiting Fano resonance into a conventional interferometer. By employing the scattering-matrix approach, we demonstrate that the transmission is sensitive to a position of the cavity such that an asymmetric structure exhibits a series of narrow resonances with almost perfect reflection. We discuss how to implement this novel geometry in two-dimensional photonic crystals and use direct numerical simulations to demonstrate novel regimes of the resonant transmission and reflection.This work was supported by Discovery and Centre of Excellence projects of the Australian Research Council ID: DP0771218.http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/0003-6951..."Publishers version/PDF may be used on author's personal website, institutional website or institutional repository" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 17/12/15). Copyright 2009 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3232224Keywords: Asymmetric structures; Fano resonances; Mach-Zehnder; Narrow resonances; Resonant transmissions; Scattering matrices; Two-dimensional photonic crystals; Computer simulation; Interferometers; Interferometry; Resonance; Photonic crystals2009-09-2410.1063/1.32322242016-02-24