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
fDate :
5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
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"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Electronic_ISBN :
2160-9004
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628241
