DocumentCode
2535885
Title
Athermal operation in polymer-clad silicon microdisk resonators
Author
Alipour, Payam ; Hosseini, Ehsan Shah ; Eftekhar, Ali Asghar ; Momeni, Babak ; Adibi, Ali
Author_Institution
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
fYear
2009
fDate
4-8 Oct. 2009
Firstpage
229
Lastpage
230
Abstract
We have used a urethane polymer as cladding to reduce the temperature sensitivity of resonance in high-Q silicon microdisk resonators. A two-order-of-magnitude improvement in resonance stability is demonstrated, and effects on the Q-factor are discussed.
Keywords
Q-factor; laser cavity resonators; optical fibre cladding; Q-factor; Si; athermal operation; microdisk resonators; polymer clad silicon; resonance stability; temperature sensitivity; urethane polymer; Etching; Optical buffering; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Polymers; Q factor; Resists; Resonance; Silicon; Stability;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location
Belek-Antalya
ISSN
1092-8081
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN
1092-8081
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343288
Filename
5343288
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