Novel resonance-based silicon nanophotonic structures

Author

Soltani, Mohammad ; Atabaki, Amir H. ; Li, Qing ; Eftekhar, Ali A. ; Yegnanarayanan, Siva ; Adibi, Ali

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

6-9 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

79

Lastpage

80

Abstract

The development of ultra-compact integrated nanophotonic structures for communications, sensing, and signal processing has been of great interest lately. In this review paper, we first present the requirements for practical realization of integrated nanophotonic chips and then explain how these requirements are met by using low-loss waveguides and high quality resonators with careful engineering of the coupling between them. We will show that the ultimate realization of high Q microresonators can enable a wide range of applications including very compact on-chip spectrometers, tunable filters, and sensing modules.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; microcavities; micromechanical resonators; nanophotonics; optical resonators; optical waveguides; reviews; silicon; Si; high Q microresonators; high quality resonators; integrated nanophotonic chips; low-loss waveguides; on-chip spectrometers; resonance-based silicon nanophotonic structures; sensing modules; tunable filters; ultracompact integrated nanophotonic structures; Couplings; Optical coupling; Optical interferometry; Optical resonators; Optical sensors; Optical waveguides; Tuning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2010 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

2158-3234

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7016-7

Electronic_ISBN

2158-3234

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NUSOD.2010.5595658

Filename

5595658