Title :
Dynamic switching between microparticle buffering and dropping on a silicon nitride optofluidic microring resonator
Author :
Jiawei Wang ; Poon, Andrew W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate dynamic switching between microparticle buffering and dropping on a silicon nitride optofluidic microring resonator by polarization switching. We calculate the cavity-field-enhancement factor as an indicator to explain the transition between buffering and dropping.
Keywords :
light polarisation; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; optical resonators; silicon compounds; SiN; cavity-field-enhancement factor; dynamic switching; microparticle buffering; microparticle dropping; polarization switching; silicon nitride optofluidic microring resonator; Optical buffering; Optical polarization; Optical resonators; Optical surface waves; Optical switches; Optical waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
