Photonic molecules for optical signal processing
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Barea, Luis A. M.; Souza, Mario C. M. M.; Rezende, Guilherme F. M.; Frateschi, Newton C.
- Source
- 2014 IEEE Photonics Conference Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE. :54-55 Dec, 2014
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Photonics
Optical signal processing
Optical resonators
Couplings
Modulation
Silicon
Wavelength division multiplexing
- Language
- ISSN
- 1092-8081
We demonstrate how CMOS compatible photonic molecules (PM) can break the fundamental interdependence among quality factor (Q), channel spacing and size of microring resonators. Different PM architectures are presented for efficient and compact optical signal processing.