Reconfigurable silicon thermo-optical device based on spectral tuning of ring resonators

A novel tunable and reconfigurable thermo-optical device is theoretically proposed and analyzed in this paper. The device is designed to be entirely compatible with CMOS process and to work as a thermo-optical filter or modulator. Numerical results, made by means of analytical and Finite-Difference...

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Published inOptics express Vol. 19; no. 13; pp. 12727 - 12739
Main Authors Fegadolli, William S, Almeida, Vilson R, Oliveira, José Edimar Barbosa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 20.06.2011
Subjects
Equipment Design
Models, Theoretical
Optical Devices
Optics and Photonics - instrumentation
Refractometry - instrumentation
Silicon - chemistry
Temperature
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Summary:A novel tunable and reconfigurable thermo-optical device is theoretically proposed and analyzed in this paper. The device is designed to be entirely compatible with CMOS process and to work as a thermo-optical filter or modulator. Numerical results, made by means of analytical and Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) methods, show that a compact device enables a broad bandwidth operation, of up to 830 GHz, which allows the device to work under a large temperature variation, of up to 96 K.
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ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/oe.19.012727