Title :
Vertically coupled glass microring resonator channel dropping filters
Author :
Little, B.E. ; Chu, Sai T. ; Pan, W. ; Ripin, D. ; Kaneko, T. ; Kokubun, Y. ; Ippen, E.
Author_Institution :
Res. Lab. of Electron., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Air-clad glass microring resonators vertically coupled to buried channel waveguides are experimentally investigated. Ring radii of 10 μm, and channel drop bandwidths of 5 nm are reported. Vertical coupling eliminates the need for the etching of fine features, and relaxes the alignment of the resonator with respect to the input and output bus waveguides.
Keywords :
claddings; micro-optics; optical communication equipment; optical glass; optical resonators; optical waveguide filters; signal processing; air-clad glass microring resonators; alignment; buried channel waveguides; channel drop bandwidths; input bus waveguides; output bus waveguides; ring radii; signal processing; vertical coupling; vertically coupled glass microring resonator channel dropping filters; Glass; Laboratories; Optical filters; Optical losses; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; RLC circuits; Resonator filters;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
