Optical Bistability in a Silicon Waveguide Distributed Bragg Reflector Fabry–Pérot Resonator

Author

Grieco, Andrew ; Slutsky, Boris ; Tan, Dawn T H ; Zamek, Steve ; Nezhad, Maziar P. ; Fainman, Yeshaiahu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, San Diego, CA, USA

Volume

30

Issue

14

fYear

2012

fDate

7/15/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2352

Lastpage

2355

Abstract

We demonstrate optical bistability in a silicon waveguide Fabry-Pérot resonator formed by a pair of distributed Bragg reflectors. In the bistable regime, the output power of the resonator ceases to be uniquely determined by the input power because multiple powers within the cavity satisfy the resonance condition. Pulsating behavior is observed within the resonator output, and is attributed to noise within the experimental setup driving the resonator between the multiple allowed output powers.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; distributed Bragg reflectors; integrated optics; optical bistability; optical noise; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; Fabry-Perot resonator; Si; optical bistability; optical noise; pulsating behavior; resonance condition; resonator input power; resonator output power; silicon waveguide distributed Bragg reflector; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Optical bistability; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Optimized production technology; Silicon; Waveguide lasers; Fabry–Perot resonators; integrated optics; optical bistability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2012.2197731

Filename

6204195