• DocumentCode
    1654637
  • Title

    Avoiding bandwidth collapse in hundreds of coupled silicon micro-resonators

  • Author

    Schneider, Mark A. ; Mookherjea, Shayan

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    An important scaling relationship is derived and experimentally validated, showing how many silicon microrings can be directly coupled to form a coupled-resonator optical waveguide, depending on the coupling coefficient magnitude and the root-mean-square disorder.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; micro-optics; micromechanical resonators; silicon; bandwidth collapse; coupled silicon microresonators; coupling coefficient magnitude; root-mean-square disorder; scaling relationship; Bandwidth; Loss measurement; Optical coupling; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325699