DocumentCode
1166521
Title
A Hybrid Electrooptic Microring Resonator-Based 
ROADM for Wafer Scale Optical Interconnects
Author
Takayesu, Jocelyn ; Hochberg, Michael ; Baehr-Jones, Tom ; Chan, Eric ; Wang, Guangxi ; Sullivan, Philip ; Liao, Yi ; Davies, Josh ; Dalton, Larry ; Scherer, Axel ; Krug, William
Author_Institution
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
Volume
27
Issue
4
fYear
2009
Firstpage
440
Lastpage
448
Abstract
Pairing high-quality factor (Q) silicon-on-insulator microring resonators with rapidly tunable organic electrooptic claddings has allowed the first demonstration of a silicon-organic hybrid electrooptic reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM). A coplanar electrode geometry provides up to 0.36 GHz/V of electrooptic voltage tuning for each channel, corresponding to an electrooptic coefficient of r33 = 64 pm/V at wavelengths around 1550 nm. Individual ring resonator devices have 40- mum ring radii, 2.7-nm free spectral range, and tuning ranges of 180 GHz. The 1 times 4 times1 ROADM has a footprint of less than 1 mm2 and has been shown to reconfigure in less than a microsecond.
Keywords
electro-optical devices; integrated optics; micro-optomechanical devices; optical communication; optical fabrication; optical interconnections; optical materials; optical tuning; silicon-on-insulator; wavelength division multiplexing; ROADM; Si-SiO2; channel electrooptic voltage tuning; coplanar electrode geometry; electro-optic material; electrooptic coefficient; electrooptic microring resonator; frequency 180 GHz; high-quality factor; integrated circuit fabrication; radius 40 mum; reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer; resonator free spectral range; silicon-on-insulator; tunable organic electrooptic cladding; wafer scale optical interconnect; wavelength 1550 nm; wavelength 2.7 nm; Electrooptical waveguides; High speed optical techniques; Optical interconnections; Optical interferometry; Optical materials; Optical modulation; Optical packet switching; Optical ring resonators; Organic materials; Ultrafast optics; Electrooptic devices; hybrid integrated circuit fabrication; integrated optics; nonlinear optics; optical polymers; resonator filters; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0733-8724
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/JLT.2008.927776
Filename
4785436
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