Title :
Athermal operation in polymer-clad silicon microdisk resonators
Author :
Alipour, Payam ; Hosseini, Ehsan Shah ; Eftekhar, Ali Asghar ; Momeni, Babak ; Adibi, Ali
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
We have used a urethane polymer as cladding to reduce the temperature sensitivity of resonance in high-Q silicon microdisk resonators. A two-order-of-magnitude improvement in resonance stability is demonstrated, and effects on the Q-factor are discussed.
Keywords :
Q-factor; laser cavity resonators; optical fibre cladding; Q-factor; Si; athermal operation; microdisk resonators; polymer clad silicon; resonance stability; temperature sensitivity; urethane polymer; Etching; Optical buffering; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Polymers; Q factor; Resists; Resonance; Silicon; Stability;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343288
