Tunable asymmetrical Fano resonance and bistability in a microcavity-resonator-coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
We propose a simple microresonator scheme for a Mach-Zehnder interferometer in which a microresonator is side coupled to one arm and a phase shifter is introduced into the other arm, to produce an asymmetric Fano-resonance line shape. In this system, a phase shifter is used to control the variation of the asymmetric line shape, with another reverse resonance next to a resonance minimum over a very narrow frequency range, which results from the interference between a direct channel and a high-Q resonance indirect channel. We also theoretically investigate the novel bistability characteristic based on these shapes.
Lu
Ying
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College of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Institute of Laser and Optoelectronics, Tianjin University, China. lingguren@yahoo.com.cn
Yao
Jianquan
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Li
Xifu
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Wang
Peng
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