Title :
Research for equilateral triangle optical resonators
Author :
Yan, Wei-Cong ; Guo, Zhi-You ; Zhu, Ning
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Optoelectron. Mater. & Technol., South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou, China
Abstract :
An important feature for the Micro-resonator is the quality factor. This Paper presents a new equilateral triangle micro-resonator (ETR) design, simulates the spectral response by FDTD method, then calculates the quality factor (Q factor), and compare the results with the micro-ring resonator (MR) with similar footprint. The simulation results show that the quality factor of ETR at the side length of 6um is more than 10 times larger than that of the MR which has the same area as ETR on the same material platform. We also show that the output of an ETR with an opening to the output waveguide is more efficient, besides the increasing of quality factor by 26% at a wavelength of 1.48um.
Keywords :
Q-factor; finite difference time-domain analysis; micro-optics; microcavities; optical resonators; FDTD method; equilateral triangle optical resonators; microresonator; microring resonator; quality factor; Cavity resonators; Finite difference methods; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Q factor; Reflection; Refractive index; equilateral triangle micro-resonator; quality factor; resonant mode;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Optoelectronics and Micro/Nano-Optics (AOM), 2010 OSA-IEEE-COS
Conference_Location :
Guangzhou
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8393-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8392-1
DOI :
10.1109/AOM.2010.5713566
