Nested-ring Mach-Zehnder interferometer in silicon-on-insulator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-11

  Darmawan, S ^a   Landobasa, Y M ^a   Dumon, P ^b   Baets, R ^b   Chin, M K ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Guided waves; High index contrast; Integrated optic devices; Mach Zehnder; Microring resonators; Nested ring; Photonic wire; Silicon on insulator (SOI) technology

Indexed keywords

GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MOS DEVICES; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY;

HIGH-INDEX CONTRAST; MICRORING RESONATORS; NESTED RING; PHOTONIC WIRE;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 37149008330     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.910618     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. B. E. Little, S. Chu, J. Hryniewicz, and P. Absil, "Filter synthesis for periodically coupled microring resonators," Opt. Lett., vol. 25, pp. 344-346, Mar. 2000.
2. S. Darmawan, Y. M. Landobasa, and M. K. Chin, "Pole-zero dynamics of high-order ring resonator filters," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 1568-1575, Jun. 2007.
3. K. De Vos, I. Bartolozzi, E. Schacht, P. Bienstman, and R. Baets, "Silicon-on-insulator microring resonator for sensitive and label-free biosensing," Opt. Express, vol. 15, pp. 7610-7615, 2007.
4. Q. Xu, S. Manipatruni, B. Schmidt, J. Shakya, and M. Lipson, "12.5 Gbit/s carrier-injection-based silicon micro-ring silicon modulators," Opt. Express, vol. 15, pp. 430-436, 2007.
5. Q. Xu and M. Lipson, "All-optical logic based on silicon micro-ring resonators," Opt. Express, vol. 15, pp. 924-929, 2007.
6. S. Darmawan, Y. M. Landobasa, and M. K. Chin, "Nested ring Mach-Zehnder interferometer," Opt. Express, vol. 15, pp. 437-448, 2007.
7. J. E. Heebner, N. N. Lepeshkin, A. Schweinsberg, G. W. Wicks, R. W. Boyd, R. Grover, and P.-T. Ho, "Enhanced linear and nonlinear optical phase response of AlGaAs microring resonators," Opt. Lett., vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 769-771, 2004.
8. P. P. Absil, J. V. Hryniewicz, B. E. Little, R. A. Wilson, L. G. Joneckis, and P. T. Ho, "Compact microring notch filters," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 398-400, Apr. 2000.
9. L. Zhou and A. W. Poon, "Fano resonance-based electrically reconfigurable add-drop filters in silicon microring resonator-coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometers," Opt. Lett., vol. 32, pp. 781-783, 2007.
10. M. Kohtoku, S. Oku, Y. Kadota, Y. Shibata, and Y. Yoshikuni, "200-GHz FSR periodic multi/demultiplexer with flattened transmission and rejection band by using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a ring resonator," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 1174-1176, Sep. 2000.
11. L. Y. Mario, S. Darmawan, and M. K. Chin, "Asymmetric fano resonance and bistability for high extinction ratio, large modulation depth, and low power switching," Opt. Express, vol. 14, pp. 12770-12781, 2006.
12. Y. Lu, J. Yao, X. Li, and P. Wang, "Tunable asymmetrical fano resonance and bistability in a microcavity-resonator-coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometer," Opt. Lett., vol. 30, pp. 3069-3071, 2005.
13. Y. Lu, L. Xu, Y. Yu, P. Wang, and J. Yao, "Double-wavelength fano resonance and enhanced coupled-resonator-induced transparency in a double-microcavity resonator system," J. Opt. Soc. Amer., vol. 23, pp. 1718-1721, 2006.
14. P. Dumon, W. Bogaerts, V. Wiaus, J. Wouters, S. Beckx, J. V. Campenhout, D. Taillaert, B. Luyssaert, P. Bientsman, D. V. Thourhout, and R. Baets, "Low-loss SOI photonic wires and ring resonators fabricated with deep UV lithography," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 1328-1330, May 2004.
15. D. Taillaert, P. Bienstman, and R. Baets, "Compact efficient broadband grating coupler for silicon-on-insulator waveguides," Opt. Lett., vol. 29, no. 23, pp. 2749-2751, 2004.