Reconfigurable silicon thermo-optical ring resonator switch based on Vernier effect control.
A proof-of-concept for a new and entirely CMOS compatible thermo-optic reconfigurable switch based on a coupled ring resonator structure is experimentally demonstrated in this paper. Preliminary results show that a single optical device is capable of combining several functionalities, such as tunable filtering, non-blocking switching and reconfigurability, in a single device with compact footprint (~50 μm x 30 μm).
Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica – ITA, Brazil. fegadoli@caltech.edu
William S
WS
Fegadolli
German
G
Vargas
Xuan
X
Wang
Felipe
F
Valini
Luis A M
LA
Barea
José E B
JE
Oliveira
Newton
N
Frateschi
Axel
A
Scherer
Vilson R
VR
Almeida
Roberto R
RR
Panepucci
D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D055096:Optical Devices; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013817:Thermography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014159:Transducers