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
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