Title :
High-Q buried heterostructure microring resonators
Author :
Choi, Seung June ; Yang, Qi ; Peng, Zhen ; Choi, Sang Jun ; Dapkus, P.Daniel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Material Sci. & Electr. Eng.-Electrophys., Southern California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
All-buried InP/InGaAsP microring resonators laterally coupled to bus waveguides are demonstrated. Very low optical losses of 0.4 cm/sup -1/ and coupling-limited quality factors of 10/sup 5/ or greater are observed from 200-/spl mu/m-radii microring resonators.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; Q-factor; gallium arsenide; gallium compounds; indium compounds; integrated optics; micro-optics; optical couplers; optical losses; optical resonators; optical waveguides; 200 mum; InP-InGaAsP; InP/InGaAsP resonators; buried heterostructure resonators; bus waveguides; coupling-limited quality factors; high-Q resonators; laterally coupled resonators; microring resonators; optical losses;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
