title: Analysis and engineering of chromatic dispersion in silicon waveguide bends and ring resonators.
abstract: We analyze chromatic dispersion in tightly curved silicon strip and slot waveguides with high index contrast. It is found that the dispersion profile is changed dramatically at both polarization states, when bending radius is reduced to a few microns. Zero-dispersion wavelength may shift by more than 220 nm, which raises a critical issue in design and optimization of micro-resonator-based devices for nonlinear applications. We propose a slot structure to tailor in-cavity dispersion and obtain spectral lines with the standard deviation of frequency-dependent free spectral range of the slot-waveguide resonator made 460 times smaller than that of a strip-waveguide resonator, making it suitable for on-chip octave-spanning frequency comb generation in mid-infrared wavelength range.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA. yyue@usc.edu
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yue
authors.forename: Raymond G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Beausoleil
authors.forename: Alan E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Willner
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055096:Optical Devices; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D012825:Silicon / Q000737:chemistry*; D014159:Transducers
chemical_list: D012825:Silicon