High-speed delay tuning of slow light in pin-diode-incorporated photonic crystal waveguide

Opt Lett. 2013 Aug 1;38(15):2680-2. doi: 10.1364/OL.38.002680.

Abstract

We demonstrate the high-speed electrical delay tuning of slow light pulses using Si photonic crystal waveguides. The device has an i-region-chirped pin diode, within which thermo-optic and carrier plasma effects are generated by forward bias. The former changes the delay up to 62 ps for the DC bias. The latter changes the delay for 1 Gbps pseudo random bit sequence tuning signals, which will be applicable to advanced time-domain optical signal processing.