Title :
Avoiding bandwidth collapse in hundreds of coupled silicon micro-resonators
Author :
Schneider, Mark A. ; Mookherjea, Shayan
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
An important scaling relationship is derived and experimentally validated, showing how many silicon microrings can be directly coupled to form a coupled-resonator optical waveguide, depending on the coupling coefficient magnitude and the root-mean-square disorder.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; micro-optics; micromechanical resonators; silicon; bandwidth collapse; coupled silicon microresonators; coupling coefficient magnitude; root-mean-square disorder; scaling relationship; Bandwidth; Loss measurement; Optical coupling; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
