A Silicon Micro-Ring Resonator with a Curved Directional Coupler for Wavelength-Independent Operation
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Wu, Cheng-Hsuan; Chen, Chih-Hsin; Huang, Chin-Shih; Hsieh, Hao-Chun; Pan, Hung-Chun; Wu, Yu-Fu; Yang, Tai-Chi; Hung, Yung-Jr
- Source
- 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR) Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2022 Conference on. :1-2 Jul, 2022
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Process monitoring
Modulation
Process control
Ring lasers
Optical coupling
Silicon
Directional couplers
- Language
A asymmetric curved directional coupler (CDC) is designed to provide wavelength-independent response and arbitrary optical coupling ratio. The CDC-equipped micro-ring resonator enables an extinction ratio of 14±2 dB over the entire o-band wavelengths.