Optically tunable delay line in silicon microring resonator based on thermal nonlinear effect

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 706-712

  Liu, Fangfei ^a,b   Li, Qiang ^a,b   Zhang, Ziyang ^a,c   Qiu, Min ^a,c   Su, Yikai ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Buffer; Microring resonator; Silicon photonics; Thermal nonlinear effect

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; MODULATION; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NONMETALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RESONATORS; SILICON; TUNING;

(100) SILICON; CONTINUOUS WAVE (C.W.); DATA RATES; DELAY LINE (DL); DELAY PERFORMANCES; DIFFERENTIAL-PHASE-SHIFT KEYING (DPSK); MICRO RINGS; MICRORING RESONATOR (MRR); MODULATION FORMATS; NON LINEAR EFFECTS; NON-RETURN TO ZERO (NRZ); RED SHIFTING; RETURN-TO-ZERO (NRZ);

WAVES;

EID: 41649115586     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.916240     Document Type: Article

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