Title :
Resonantly enhanced all optical buffers on a silicon chip
Author :
Xia, F. ; Sekaric, L. ; Vlasov, Yu.
Author_Institution :
IBM, Yorktown Heights
Abstract :
We investigated ultra-compact optical buffers using cascaded ring resonators and photonic crystal waveguides on silicon-on-insulator platform. Group delay exceeding 500 ps was realized at 20 Gbps, corresponding to buffering of 10 bits using up to 100 cascaded resonators.
Keywords :
integrated optoelectronics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical resonators; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; Si; bit rate 20 Gbit/s; cascaded ring resonators; photonic crystal waveguides; silicon chip; silicon-on-insulator platform; ultracompact optical buffers; Delay; Optical buffering; Optical coupling; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Resonance; Silicon; Slow light; all optical buffers; photonic crystal (PhC) waveguides; ring resonators;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics in Switching, 2007
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1121-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-1122-X
DOI :
10.1109/PS.2007.4300717
