• DocumentCode
    733368
  • Title

    Hybrid silicon ring laser with unidirectional emission

  • Author

    Sacher, Wesley D. ; Davenport, Michael L. ; Heck, Martijn J. R. ; Mikkelsen, Jared C. ; Poon, Joyce K. S. ; Bowers, John E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A hybrid silicon ring laser in which the counter-clockwise circulating power is coupled into the clockwise mode is demonstrated. Unidirectional clockwise laser output is achieved with a suppression ratio of 19 dB over the counter-clockwise mode.
  • Keywords
    laser beams; laser modes; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; silicon; Si; counter-clockwise circulating power; counter-clockwise mode; hybrid silicon ring laser; suppression ratio; unidirectional clockwise laser output; unidirectional emission; Cavity resonators; Monitoring; Optical reflection; Optical ring resonators; Photonics; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183806