Miniature optical delay lines and buffers

Creation of miniature optical delay lines and buffers is one of the greatest challenges of the modern photonics which can revolutionize optical communications and computing. Several remarkable designs of slow light optical delay lines employing coupled ring resonators and photonic crystal waveguides...

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Published in2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) pp. 1 - 3
Main Authors Dmitriev, Artemiy V., Toropov, Nikita A., Sumetsky, M.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.07.2016
Subjects
Delay lines
microresonators
nanophotonics
Optical buffering
optical buffers
optical delay lines
Optical device fabrication
Optical ring resonators
Photonics
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Summary:Creation of miniature optical delay lines and buffers is one of the greatest challenges of the modern photonics which can revolutionize optical communications and computing. Several remarkable designs of slow light optical delay lines employing coupled ring resonators and photonic crystal waveguides has been suggested and experimentally demonstrated. However, the insertion loss of these devices is too large for their practical applications. Alternatively, the recently developed photonic fabrication platform, Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics (SNAP) allows us to fabricate record small delay lines with unprecedentedly small dispersion and low loss. In this report, we review the recent progress in fabrication and design of miniature slow light devices and buffers, in particular, those based on the SNAP technology.
ISSN:2161-2064
DOI:10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550398