title: Analysis of coupled microcircular resonators coupled to a bus waveguide with high output efficiency.
abstract: Coupled microcircular resonators tangentially coupled to a bus waveguide, which is between the resonators, are numerically investigated by the finite-difference time-domain technique. For symmetrically coupled microcircular resonators with refractive index of 3.2, radius of 2 microm, and width of the bus waveguide of 0.4 microm, a mode Q factor of the order of 10(5) is obtained for a mode at the frequency of 243 THz. An output coupling efficiency of as high as 0.99 is calculated for a mode with a Q factor ranging from 10(3) to 10(4). The mode Q factor is 2 orders larger than that of the modes confined in a single circular resonator tangentially coupled to the same bus waveguide. Furthermore, the high Q traveling modes in the coupled microcircular resonators are suitable for optical single processing.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 912, Beijing 100083, China.
authors.forename: Shi-Jiang
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yue-De
authors.initials: YD
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Yong-Zhen
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Huang