Thermally tunable silicon racetrack resonators with ultralow tuning power
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- 8 September 2010
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 18 (19) , 20298-20304
- https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.18.020298
Abstract
We present thermally tunable silicon racetrack resonators with an ultralow tuning power of 2.4 mW per free spectral range. The use of free-standing silicon racetrack resonators with undercut structures significantly enhances the tuning efficiency, with one order of magnitude improvement of that for previously demonstrated thermo-optic devices without undercuts. The 10%-90% switching time is demonstrated to be ~170 µs. Such low-power tunable micro-resonators are particularly useful as multiplexing devices and wavelength-tunable silicon microcavity modulators.Keywords
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