DocumentCode
1944673
Title
Wavelength locking of microring resonators and modulators using a dithering signal
Author
Padmaraju, Kishore ; Logan, Dylan F. ; Ackert, Jason J. ; Knights, Andrew P. ; Bergman, Keren
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
fYear
2013
fDate
22-26 Sept. 2013
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We present a scalable, energy-efficient method to automatically align microring resonators and modulators with laser wavelengths, as well as provide thermal stabilization. The method utilizes a dithering signal to generate error signals that are immune to fluctuations in laser power.
Keywords
laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; optical modulation; thermal stability; automatically aligned microring modulators; automatically aligned microring resonators; dithering signal; error signal generation; laser power fluctuations; laser wavelengths; thermal stabilization; wavelength locking;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location
London
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-84919-759-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1049/cp.2013.1571
Filename
6647764
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