Optical Phase Characterization of Photonic Integrated Devices

Author

Matres, Joaquin ; Ballesteros, Guillem C. ; Mas, Sara ; Brimont, Antoine ; Sanchis, Pablo ; Marti, Joan ; Oton, Claudio J.

Author_Institution

Valencia Nanophotonics Technol. Center, Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Volume

20

Issue

4

fYear

2014

fDate

July-Aug. 2014

Firstpage

417

Lastpage

421

Abstract

We propose a relatively simple experimental setup, capable of accurately characterizing the optical phase response of an integrated photonic circuit. The setup is based on a phase-noise reduction scheme using an external heterodyne Mach-Zehnder interferometer. In particular, we characterize the phase response of different silicon photonic components: under- and over-coupled ring resonators, and a slow-light corrugated waveguide.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; optical couplers; optical noise; optical resonators; optical waveguides; silicon; slow light; Si; external heterodyne Mach-Zehnder interferometer; integrated photonic circuit; optical phase response characterization; over-coupled ring resonators; phase-noise reduction scheme; photonic integrated devices; silicon photonic components; slow-light corrugated waveguide; under-coupled ring resonators; Indexes; Optical interferometry; Optical ring resonators; Optical variables measurement; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon; Integrated optics; nonlinear optics; optical resonators; phase detection; photonic integrated circuits; silicon photonics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2292511

Filename

6681885