• DocumentCode
    1771394
  • Title

    A high-Q tunable interior-ridge microring filter

  • Author

    Timurdogan, Erman ; Zhan Su ; Jie Sun ; Moresco, Michele ; Leake, Gerald ; Coolbaugh, Douglas D. ; Watts, Michael R.

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A tunable interior-ridge microring filter is demonstrated with a high quality factor of 1.5×105, while achieving a thermal tuning efficiency of 5.5μW/GHz. The filter demonstrates a record low insertion-loss <;0.05dB over an uncorrupted 4-THz free-spectral-range.
  • Keywords
    Q-factor; integrated optics; micro-optics; microcavities; optical filters; optical losses; optical resonators; optical tuning; optical waveguides; frequency 4 THz; high-Q factor tunable interior-ridge microring filter; low insertion-loss; thermal tuning efficiency; Heating; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Q-factor; Resonator filters; Silicon; Tuning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989411