Silicon microring resonators

W Bogaerts, P De Heyn… - Laser & Photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
An overview is presented of the current state‐of‐the‐art in silicon nanophotonic ring
resonators. Basic theory of ring resonators is discussed, and applied to the peculiarities of …

Silicon photonics: from a microresonator perspective

S Feng, T Lei, H Chen, H Cai, X Luo… - Laser & photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon photonics leverages the optical, electrical and material properties of silicon and the
mature complementary metal‐oxide semiconductor (CMOS) nanofabrication technique to …

Continuously tunable ultra-thin silicon waveguide optical delay line

X Wang, L Zhou, R Li, J Xie, L Lu, K Wu, J Chen - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
As light cannot be stopped or directly stored in any media, optical delay lines are usually
used to temporally trap the optical signals. We report a wide-range continuously tunable …

The first decade of coupled resonator optical waveguides: bringing slow light to applications

F Morichetti, C Ferrari, A Canciamilla… - Laser & Photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A century after the first optical cavity, coupled resonator optical waveguides (CROWs) were
conceived as a new way to guide light on a photonic chip. Controlling chains of coupled …

Wide-bandwidth continuously tunable optical delay line using silicon microring resonators

J Cardenas, MA Foster, N Sherwood-Droz… - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a distortion free tunable optical delay as long as 135 ps with a 10 GHz
bandwidth using thermally tuned silicon microring resonators in the novel balanced …

Continuously tunable 1 byte delay in coupled-resonator optical waveguides

A Melloni, F Morichetti, C Ferrari, M Martinelli - Optics letters, 2008 - opg.optica.org
A reconfigurable coupled-resonator optical waveguide made of a few directly coupled ring
resonators is employed to control the delay of data streams modulated at tens of gigabits per …

Electronically tunable silicon photonic delay lines

S Khan, MA Baghban, S Fathpour - Optics express, 2011 - opg.optica.org
Electronically tunable optical true-time delay lines are proposed. The devices utilize the
combination of apodised gratings and the free-carrier plasma effect to tune the enhanced …

Permanent matching of coupled optical bottle resonators with better than 0.16 GHz precision

NA Toropov, M Sumetsky - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The fabrication precision is one of the most critical challenges to the creation of practical
photonic circuits composed of coupled high Q-factor microresonators. While very accurate …

Design of an ultra-compact graphene-based integrated microphotonic tunable delay line

G Brunetti, D Conteduca, F Dell'Olio, C Ciminelli… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The design of a continuously tunable optical delay line based on a compact graphene-
based silicon Bragg grating is reported. High performance, in terms of electro-optical …

Slow-light-based variable symbol-rate silicon photonics DQPSK receiver

K Suzuki, HC Nguyen, T Tamanuki, F Shinobu… - Optics …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We report a silicon DQPSK receiver whose symbol rate can be varied by a tunable one-bit
delay line including an all-pass micro-ring slow-light device. It also consists of Si-wire …