Design of polarization-insensitive ring resonators in silicon-on-insulator using MMI couplers and cladding stress engineering

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 343-345

  Xu, Dan Xia ^a   Janz, Siegfried ^a   Cheben, Pavel ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Multimode interference (MMI) coupler; Polarization; Ring resonator; Silicon on insulator (SOI); Stress; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MICROSENSORS; NONMETALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RESONATORS; POLARIZATION; RESONATORS; SILICON; TECHNOLOGY;

DESIGN PARAMETERS; FREE-SPECTRAL RANGE; MMI COUPLERS; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE (MMI) COUPLER; MULTIMODE-INTERFERENCE COUPLER; POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT; POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE; POLARIZED MODES; QUALITY FACTOR; RING RESONATOR; RING RESONATORS; SILICON-ON -INSULATOR; SILICON-ON-INSULATOR (SOI); SPLITTING RATIOS; STRESS; STRESS ENGINEERING; STRESS-INDUCED BIREFRINGENCE; WAVEGUIDES;

CLADDING (COATING);

EID: 33845608220     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2005.861973     Document Type: Article

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