Title :
Hybrid silicon ring laser with unidirectional emission
Author :
Sacher, Wesley D. ; Davenport, Michael L. ; Heck, Martijn J. R. ; Mikkelsen, Jared C. ; Poon, Joyce K. S. ; Bowers, John E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
A hybrid silicon ring laser in which the counter-clockwise circulating power is coupled into the clockwise mode is demonstrated. Unidirectional clockwise laser output is achieved with a suppression ratio of 19 dB over the counter-clockwise mode.
Keywords :
laser beams; laser modes; ring lasers; semiconductor lasers; silicon; Si; counter-clockwise circulating power; counter-clockwise mode; hybrid silicon ring laser; suppression ratio; unidirectional clockwise laser output; unidirectional emission; Cavity resonators; Monitoring; Optical reflection; Optical ring resonators; Photonics; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
