• DocumentCode
    2870126
  • Title

    Design of silicon MMI crossing laterally coupled microring resonators

  • Author

    Chen, Hui ; Poon, Andrew W.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We design a silicon MMI crossing laterally coupled microring resonator-based cross-connect filter. Numerical simulations suggest our design exhibits reduced insertion loss, reduced crosstalk, and more symmetric Lorentzian lineshapes as compared with the conventional plain-crossing-microring design.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; micro-optics; microcavities; optical crosstalk; optical filters; optical losses; optical resonators; silicon; spectral line breadth; Si; cross-connect filter; crosstalk; insertion loss; laterally coupled resonators; microring resonators; silicon multimode interference crossing; symmetric Lorentzian lineshapes; Crosstalk; Finite difference methods; Insertion loss; Interference; Microcavities; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Resonance; Silicon; Solid modeling; (230.3120) Integrated optics devices; (230.5750) Resonators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628161
  • Filename
    4628161