• DocumentCode
    2302470
  • Title

    Sub-100ns and low-loss reconfigurable silicon photonics

  • Author

    Atabaki, Amir H. ; Eftekhar, Ali A. ; Yegnanarayanan, Siva ; Adibi, Ali

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7-11 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    230
  • Lastpage
    231
  • Abstract
    We develop a reconfigurable silicon photonics platform using low-loss microheater architectures integrated onto ultra-compact Si microdisk resonators. A low-power differentially tunable coupler is demonstrated with reconfiguration time below 85 ns using this platform.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical couplers; optical materials; optical resonators; optical tuning; silicon; Si; differentially tunable coupler; microdisk resonators; microheater; reconfigurable silicon photonics; reconfiguration time;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
  • Conference_Location
    Denver, CO
  • ISSN
    -
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5368-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    -
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698843
  • Filename
    5698843