Title :
Widely tunable silicon-on-insulator ring resonators with a liquid crystal cladding
Author :
De Cort, Wout ; Beeckman, Jeroen ; Claes, Tom ; Neyts, Kristiaan ; Baets, Roel
Author_Institution :
Dept. Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ. - IMEC, Ghent, Belgium
Abstract :
Silicon-On-Insulator ring resonators can be widely tuned with a cladding layer of Liquid Crystals. Reorientation of the director with an electric field results in a tuning range of more than 30nm.
Keywords :
cladding techniques; liquid crystals; optical resonators; optical tuning; silicon-on-insulator; electric field; liquid crystal cladding; widely tunable silicon on insulator ring resonators; Glass; Indexes; Liquid crystals; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Silicon on insulator technology; Tuning;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8940-4
DOI :
10.1109/PHO.2011.6110661
