Title :
Sub-100ns and low-loss reconfigurable silicon photonics
Author :
Atabaki, Amir H. ; Eftekhar, Ali A. ; Yegnanarayanan, Siva ; Adibi, Ali
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
We develop a reconfigurable silicon photonics platform using low-loss microheater architectures integrated onto ultra-compact Si microdisk resonators. A low-power differentially tunable coupler is demonstrated with reconfiguration time below 85 ns using this platform.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical couplers; optical materials; optical resonators; optical tuning; silicon; Si; differentially tunable coupler; microdisk resonators; microheater; reconfigurable silicon photonics; reconfiguration time;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698843
