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
fDate :
6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
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"
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8892
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2015.7340162
