Title :
Efficiency modeling of tuning techniques for silicon carrier injection ring resonators
Author :
Titriku, Alex ; Cheng Li ; Shafik, Ayman ; Palermo, Samuel
Author_Institution :
Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA
Abstract :
Modeling of carrier injection ring resonator devices with common thermal tuning and a new dual-bias/thermal scheme reveals that the latter scheme offers ~50% improvement in power with small variations and close to 16X speed improvement.
Keywords :
integrated optics; optical interconnections; optical resonators; optical tuning; silicon; thermo-optical devices; Si; carrier injection ring resonator device modeling; common thermal tuning; dual-bias/thermal scheme; efficiency modeling; silicon carrier injection ring resonators; tuning techniques; Optical ring resonators; Refractive index; Silicon photonics; Tuning; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Interconnects Conference, 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2467-7
DOI :
10.1109/OIC.2014.6886055
