Silicon-on-insulator electro-optically tunable waveguide-coupled microdisk resonators with selectively integrated p-i-n diodes

Author

Zhou, Linjie ; Poon, Andrew W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Kowloon, China

fYear

2005

fDate

21-23 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

23

Lastpage

25

Abstract

We report silicon-on-insulator electro-optically tunable microdisk resonators with selectively integrated p-i-n diodes. Using free-carrier plasma dispersion effect, we show that the whispering-gallery modes can be blueshifted by 0.4 nm upon I-V forward bias.

Keywords

electro-optical devices; integrated optoelectronics; micro-optics; microcavities; optical resonators; optical waveguides; p-i-n diodes; silicon-on-insulator; spectral line shift; whispering gallery modes; Si-SiO₂; blueshift; electrooptically tunable resonators; free-carrier plasma dispersion effect; microdisk resonators; p-i-n diodes; selectively integrated diodes; silicon-on-insulator; waveguide-coupled resonators; whispering-gallery modes; Dispersion; Electrooptic devices; Electrooptical waveguides; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; P-i-n diodes; Plasma devices; Silicon on insulator technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Group IV Photonics, 2005. 2nd IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9070-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GROUP4.2005.1516390

Filename

1516390