• DocumentCode
    3628927
  • Title

    Ultra-widely tunable photonic microcavities through evanescent field perturbation

  • Author

    Peter T. Rakich;Milos A. Popovic;Michael R. Watts;Tymon Barwicz;Henry I. Smith;Erich P. Ippen

  • Author_Institution
    Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139 USA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Evanescent perturbation is examined as a means of tuning photonic microcavities over large wavelength ranges. 27 nm reversible tuning is achieved through nanometric control of a silica perturbing body in the near-field of a microring resonator.
  • Keywords
    "Tuning","Probes","Optical ring resonators","Force","Distance measurement","Optical waveguides","Optical surface waves"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2160-9004
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628241
  • Filename
    4628241