• DocumentCode
    3699726
  • Title

    A novel variable optical attenuator based on two detuned coupled rings

  • Author

    Heng Zhang; Hongchen Yu; Minghua Chen; Sigang Yang; Hongwei Chen; Shizhong Xie

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNlist), Beijing, 100084, China
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A novel variable optical attenuator (VOA) based on two coupled rings in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguides has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated, from which an attenuation varying from 0 dB to 35 dB can be obtained.
  • Keywords
    "Optical waveguides","Optical ring resonators","Optical attenuators","Silicon","Resonant frequency","Heating"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2166-8892
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2015.7340162
  • Filename
    7340162