Picosecond optically reconfigurable filters exploiting full free spectral range tuning of single ring and Vernier effect resonators
Picosecond optically reconfigurable filters exploiting full free spectral range tuning of single ring and Vernier effect resonators
We demonstrate that phase shifts larger than 2 pi can be induced by all-optical tuning in silicon waveguides of a few micrometers in length. By generating high concentrations of free carriers in the silicon employing absorption of ultrashort, ultraviolet laser pulses, the refractive index of silicon can be drastically reduced. As a result, the resonance wavelength of optical resonators can be freely tuned over the full free spectral range. This allows for active integrated optic devices that can be switched with GHz frequencies into any desired state by all-optical means.
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Bruck, Roman, Mills, B., Thomson, D.J., Troia, Benedetto, Passaro, Vittorio, Mashanovich, Goran Z., Reed, G.T. and Muskens, Otto L.
(2015)
Picosecond optically reconfigurable filters exploiting full free spectral range tuning of single ring and Vernier effect resonators.
Optics Express, 23 (9), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.23.012468).
Abstract
We demonstrate that phase shifts larger than 2 pi can be induced by all-optical tuning in silicon waveguides of a few micrometers in length. By generating high concentrations of free carriers in the silicon employing absorption of ultrashort, ultraviolet laser pulses, the refractive index of silicon can be drastically reduced. As a result, the resonance wavelength of optical resonators can be freely tuned over the full free spectral range. This allows for active integrated optic devices that can be switched with GHz frequencies into any desired state by all-optical means.
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Accepted/In Press date: 29 April 2015
Published date: 1 May 2015
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Optoelectronics Research Centre, Electronics & Computer Science, Quantum, Light & Matter Group
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Local EPrints ID: 376885
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/376885
ISSN: 1094-4087
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Roman Bruck
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B. Mills
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D.J. Thomson
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Benedetto Troia
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Vittorio Passaro
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Goran Z. Mashanovich
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G.T. Reed
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