• DocumentCode
    2245904
  • Title

    Compact bandwidth tunable microring resonators

  • Author

    Chen, Long ; Sherwood-Droz, Nicolas ; Lipson, Michal

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate microring resonators on silicon-on-insulator with bandwidth tunable from 0.1 nm to 0.7 nm, an extinction ratio of 23 dB and a footprint of less than 0.001 mm2 using interferometric couplers and thermal tuning.
  • Keywords
    light interferometry; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; optical couplers; optical resonators; optical tuning; silicon-on-insulator; thermo-optical devices; bandwidth tunable microring resonators; extinction ratio; interferometric couplers; silicon-on-insulator; thermal tuning; Bandwidth; Couplers; Extinction ratio; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical tuning; Optical waveguides; Resonance; (130.3120) Integrated optics devices; (130.7408) Wavelength filtering devices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-859-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4571861