Wide-bandwidth continuously tunable optical delay line using silicon microring resonators

Jaime Cárdenas; Mark A. Foster; Nicolás Sherwood-Droz; Carl B. Poitras; Hugo L. R. Lira; Beibei Zhang; Alexander L. Gaeta; Jacob B. Khurgin; Paul A. Morton; Michal Lipson

doi:10.1364/oe.18.026525

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Wide-bandwidth continuously tunable optical delay line using silicon microring resonators

Jaime Cárdenas Mark A. Foster Nicolás Sherwood-Droz Carl B. Poitras Hugo L. R. Lira Beibei Zhang Alexander L. Gaeta Jacob B. Khurgin Paul A. Morton Michal Lipson

Year: 2010 Journal: Optics Express Vol: 18 (25)Pages: 26525-26525 Publisher: Optica Publishing Group

DOI: 10.1364/oe.18.026525

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Abstract

We demonstrate a distortion free tunable optical delay as long as 135 ps with a 10 GHz bandwidth using thermally tuned silicon microring resonators in the novel balanced configuration. The device is simple, easy to control and compact measuring only 30 µm wide by 250 µm long.

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Resonator Optics Bandwidth (computing) Materials science Silicon Free spectral range Optoelectronics Optical filter Computer science Physics Telecommunications

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Wide-bandwidth continuously tunable optical delay line using silicon microring resonators

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