title: On-chip silicon photonic wavelength control of optical fiber lasers.
abstract: Tunable silicon microring filters are used to demonstrate CMOS-compatible on-chip wavelength control of Er(+) doped fiber-lasers. An onchip Ni-Cr micro-heater consuming up to 20 mW is capable of tuning the Si microring filter by 1.3 nm with a lasing linewidths narrower than 0.02 nm. This approach enables arbitrary multiple wavelength generation on a silicon chip. Possible applications include on-chip and chip-to-chip dense-wavelength division multiplexed communications and sensor interrogation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University, 10555 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33174, USA.
authors.forename: Xuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Vilson R
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: de Almeida
authors.forename: Roberto R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Panepucci
mesh_terms: D002857:Chromium / Q000737:chemistry; D004867:Equipment Design; D004871:Erbium / Q000737:chemistry; D006358:Hot Temperature; D007834:Lasers; D009532:Nickel / Q000737:chemistry; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D017785:Photons; D012825:Silicon / Q000737:chemistry*; D014159:Transducers
chemical_list: D002857:Chromium; D004871:Erbium; D009532:Nickel; D012825:Silicon