Title :
Sub-microsecond thermal reconfiguration of silicon photonic devices
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
Abstract :
Using the experimental data we show the possibility of sub-microsecond reconfiguration of silicon photonics microresonators through pulse shaping of micro-heater excitation. Also, a novel heater structure based on small microdisk resonators with sub-hundred-nanosecond reconfiguration speed is proposed and investigated theoretically.
Keywords :
integrated optics; microdisc lasers; optical pulse shaping; micro-heater excitation; pulse shaping; silicon photonic devices; silicon photonics microresonators; small microdisk resonators; sub-microsecond thermal reconfiguration; Optical devices; Optical materials; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Optical tuning; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Space vector pulse width modulation; Steady-state; Thermal conductivity;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343159
