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

Jaime Cardenas; Mark A Foster; Nicolás Sherwood-Droz; Carl B Poitras; Hugo L R Lira; Beibei Zhang; Alexander L Gaeta; Jacob B Khurgin; Paul Morton; Michal Lipson

doi:10.1364/OE.18.026525

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

Opt Express. 2010 Dec 6;18(25):26525-34. doi: 10.1364/OE.18.026525.

Authors

Jaime Cardenas¹, Mark A Foster, Nicolás Sherwood-Droz, Carl B Poitras, Hugo L R Lira, Beibei Zhang, Alexander L Gaeta, Jacob B Khurgin, Paul Morton, Michal Lipson

Affiliation

¹ School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.

PMID: 21165004
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.026525

Abstract

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 configuration. The device is simple, easy to control and compact measuring only 30 µm wide by 250 µm long.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Computer-Aided Design
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Hot Temperature
Lenses*
Miniaturization
Silicon / chemistry*
Transducers*

Substances

Silicon