Enhanced fast light and low-distortion slow light in microring-resonator assisted Mach-Zehnder Sagnac loop on a silicon-on-insulator platform

Author

Xiaowen Sun ; Jiayang Wu ; Tao Wang ; Liang Zhang ; Xi Yin ; Pan Cao ; Fei Li ; Xinhong Jiang ; Yikai Su

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2013

fDate

28-30 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

164

Lastpage

165

Abstract

An optical resonance analogous to electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is realized by using a silicon microring resonator assisted Mach-Zehnder Sagnac loop. Enhanced fast light and low-distortion slow light are experimentally achieved with the fabricated device.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Sagnac interferometers; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; micro-optics; optical resonators; self-induced transparency; silicon-on-insulator; slow light; Mach-Zehnder Sagnac loop; Si; electromagnetically induced transparency; fast light; low-distortion slow light; optical resonance; silicon microring resonator; silicon-on-insulator platform; Couplers; Delays; Optical buffering; Optical packet switching; Optical resonators; Sagnac interferometers; Slow light; Sagnac loop; electromagnetically-induced-transparency (EIT); fast and slow lights; microring resonator (MRR);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul

ISSN

1949-2081

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5803-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/Group4.2013.6644422

Filename

6644422