Title :
Free-standing silicon ring resonator for low power optical bistability
Author :
Sun, Peng ; Reano, Ronald M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate low power optical bistability in a free-standing silicon ring resonator. The transmission exhibits hysteresis for 80 µW pump power, which is over an order of magnitude lower than similar unreleased ring resonators.
Keywords :
Etching; Optical bistability; Optical pumping; Optical refraction; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical signal processing; Optical variables control; Resonance; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
