• DocumentCode
    1779172
  • Title

    Microring modulator using drop-port phase interference

  • Author

    Caverley, Michael ; Jayatilleka, Hasitha ; Yun Wang ; Chrostowski, Lukas ; Jaeger, Nicolas A. F.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    12-16 Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    613
  • Lastpage
    614
  • Abstract
    We present a modulator design where two microring modulators are incorporated into a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, and show that its extinction ratio and insertion loss can be tuned while staying at a fixed input wavelength.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; micro-optics; optical losses; optical modulation; optical tuning; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; drop-port phase interference; extinction ratio; fixed input wavelength; insertion loss; microring modulator; modulator design; tuning; Couplings; Erbium; Junctions; Optical device fabrication; Optical losses; Phase modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995289
  • Filename
    6995289
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1779172