• DocumentCode
    1876942
  • Title

    Integrated high-quality factor silicon-on-sapphire ring resonators for the mid-infrared

  • Author

    Shankar, Raji ; Bulu, Irfan ; Loncar, Marko

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng. & Appl. Sci., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    28-30 Aug. 2013
  • Firstpage
    17
  • Lastpage
    18
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate high-quality (Q) factor grating-coupled silicon-on-sapphire ring resonators, operating around 4.5 μm. Total Q-factors of 151,000 and intrinsic Q-factors of 278,000 are measured, enabling applications in nonlinear wavelength generation and other areas.
  • Keywords
    Q-factor; diffraction gratings; integrated optics; optical couplers; optical resonators; silicon-on-insulator; Q factor; Si-Al2O3; grating-coupled resonators; integrated silicon-on-sapphire ring resonators; midinfrared photonics; nonlinear wavelength generation; quality factor; Couplings; Gratings; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Q-factor; Silicon; Silicon on sapphire;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Seoul
  • ISSN
    1949-2081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-5803-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/Group4.2013.6644468
  • Filename
    6644468