Theoretical analysis of a thermal-optical tunable filter based on Vernier effect of cascade microring resonators

Ren Guang-Hui; Chen Shao-Wu; Cao Tong-Tong

doi:10.7498/aps.61.034215

Abstract

A thermal-optical tunable filter based on the Venier effect of cascade microring resonator, which can expand the Free-Spectrum-Range (FSR) and the tuning range, is designed and simulated. The FSR of the filter with a radius of 48 m for the first order and 50 m for the second order microring can be expanded to 76.5 nm, which is at present the largest FSR to our best knowledge. A tuning range covering all of the above mentioned FSR can be reached under 103.1 mW heating power, which is also the largest one for silicon based thermal-optic tunable microring resonator filers. The response time, calculated by finite-element-method, of the designed tunable filter with 50 m radius ring is 3.5 s for the rise edge and 0.8 s for the fall edge.

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State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
Funds: Project supported by the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China(Grant No. 2007CB613405) and the National Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos. 60877013,60837001,61021003).

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Cited By

[1]	Xu Q F, Fattal D, Beausoleil R G 2008 Opt. Express 16 4309
[2]	Seung J C, Zhen P, Qi Y, Sang J C, Dapkus P D 2005 IEEE Photon.Technol. Lett. 17 106
[3]	Jin L, LiMY, He J J 2010 CLEO/QELS, Poster Session II CJWA84
[4]	Claes T, Bogaerts W, Bienstman P 2010 Opt. Express 18 22747
[5]	Soref R A 1993 Proc. IEEE 81 1687
[6]	Magdalena S N, Liu T, Wang X, Roberto R P 2007 Appl. Phys.Lett. 89 07110
[7]	Park J, Lee T, Lee D, Kim S, HwangW, Chung Y 2008 IEEE PhotonicsTechnology Letters 20 988
[8]	Lee H, Kim G, Kim S, Chung Y 2009 CLEO/Pacific Rim Shanghai,China pp1-2
[9]	Xu X J, Chen S W, Yu J Z, Tu X G 2009 J. Optics A Pure andApplied Optics 11 015508
[10]	Poon J K S, Scheuer J, Mookhejea S, Paloczi G T, Huang Y Y,Yariv A 2004 Opt. Express 12 90
[11]	Tian H, Zhang Y D, Wang H, Qiu W, Wang N, Yuan P 2008 ActaPhys. Sin. 57 6400 (in Chinese) [田赫, 掌蕴东, 王号, 邱薇, 王楠, 袁萍 2008 物理学报 57 6400]
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[13]	Cocorullo G, Della Corte F G, Rendina I 1999 Appl. Phys. Lett.74 3338

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