Title :
Large bandwidth continuously tunable delay using silicon microring resonators
Author :
Cardenas, Jaime ; Sherwood, Nicholas ; Foster, Mark A. ; Poitras, Carl B. ; Gaeta, Alexander L. ; Lipson, Michal ; Khurgin, Jacob B. ; Morton, Paul A.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a distortion free tunable delays as long as 72 ps with a 10 GHz bandwidth using thermally tuned silicon microring resonators. The device is compact measuring only 30 mum wide by 250 mum long.
Keywords :
delays; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; micro-optics; microcavities; micromechanical resonators; optical resonators; silicon; SCISSOR device; Si; bandwidth 10 GHz; continuously tunable delay; distortion free tunable delays; large bandwidth delay; silicon microring resonators; size 250 mum; size 30 mum; thermally tuned resonators; time 72 ps; Bandwidth; Delay lines; Distortion measurement; Etching; Phased arrays; Plasma chemistry; Resonance; Silicon compounds; USA Councils; Voltage; SCISSOR; resonators; tunable delay;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP '09. 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4402-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1949-2081
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338296
