Silicon photonics: from a microresonator perspective

S Feng, T Lei, H Chen, H Cai, X Luo… - Laser & photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon photonics leverages the optical, electrical and material properties of silicon and the
mature complementary metal‐oxide semiconductor (CMOS) nanofabrication technique to …

Ultrabroad-bandwidth arbitrary radiofrequency waveform generation with a silicon photonic chip-based spectral shaper

MH Khan, H Shen, Y Xuan, L Zhao, S Xiao… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Ultrabroad-bandwidth radiofrequency pulses offer significant applications potential, such as
increased data transmission rate and multipath tolerance in wireless communications. Such …

Tunable frequency combs based on dual microring resonators

SA Miller, Y Okawachi, S Ramelow, K Luke, A Dutt… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
In order to achieve efficient parametric frequency comb generation in microresonators,
external control of coupling between the cavity and the bus waveguide is necessary …

Compact bandwidth-tunable microring resonators

L Chen, N Sherwood-Droz, M Lipson - Optics letters, 2007 - opg.optica.org
Using interferometric couplers and thermal tuning, we demonstrate a novel design of
compact microring resonators on silicon-on-insulator platform with tunable bandwidth from …

Polarization-transparent silicon photonic add-drop multiplexer with wideband hitless tuneability

F Morichetti, M Milanizadeh, M Petrini, F Zanetto… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Flexible optical networks require reconfigurable devices with operation on a wavelength
range of several tens of nanometers, hitless tuneability (ie transparency to other channels …

Compact silicon microring resonators with ultra-low propagation loss in the C band

S Xiao, MH Khan, H Shen, M Qi - Optics express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
The propagation loss in compact silicon microring resonators is optimized with varied ring
widths as well as bending radii. At the telecom band of 1.53-1.57 μm, we demonstrate as low …

A highly compact third-order silicon microring add-drop filter with a very large free spectral range, a flat passband and a low delay dispersion

S Xiao, MH Khan, H Shen, M Qi - Optics express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate highly compact third-order silicon microring add-drop filters. The microring
resonator has a small radius of 2.5 μm and a very large free spectral range of 32 nm at 1.55 …

Silicon-on-insulator microring add-drop filters with free spectral ranges over 30 nm

S Xiao, MH Khan, H Shen, M Qi - Journal of lightwave Technology, 2008 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate highly compact optical add–drop filters based on silicon-on-insulator
microring resonators. The microring resonators have a small radius of 2.5 μm and a very …

Broadband hitless silicon electro-optic switch for on-chip optical networks

HLR Lira, S Manipatruni, M Lipson - Optics Express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We report on the demonstration of a broadband (60 GHz), spectrally hitless, compact (20 µm
x 40 µm), fast (7 ns) electro-optical switch. The device is composed of two coupled resonant …

Tunable coupled-mode dispersion compensation and its application to on-chip resonant four-wave mixing

CM Gentry, X Zeng, MA Popović - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate mode coupling as a viable dispersion compensation
technique for phase-matched resonant four-wave mixing (FWM). We demonstrate a dual …