Systematic engineering of waveguide-resonator coupling for silicon microring/microdisk/racetrack resonators: Theory and experiment

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1158-1169

  Soltani, Mohammad ^a   Yegnanarayanan, Siva ^b   Li, Qing ^b   Adibi, Ali ^b  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled mode analysis; Dielectric waveguides; Microresonators; Optical resonators; Optical waveguide filters

Indexed keywords

COUPLED MODE ANALYSIS; COUPLING STRENGTHS; CRITICAL COUPLING; FABRICATION ERRORS; INTERACTION LENGTH; LOW-Q RESONATORS; MICRO RESONATORS; MICRODISK RESONATORS; MICRORINGS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE FILTER; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; RESONATOR COUPLING; RESONATOR DIMENSION; RESONATOR STRUCTURES; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; SYSTEMATIC ENGINEERING; ULTRA-HIGH;

CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL RESONATORS;

EID: 77951173636     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2044633     Document Type: Article

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