On-chip microresonator dispersion engineering via segmented sidewall modulation

Masoud Kheyri; Shuangyou Zhang; Toby Bi; Arghadeep Pal; Hao Zhang; Yaojing Zhang; Abdullah Alabbadi; Haochen Yan; Alekhya Ghosh; Lewis Hill; Pablo Bianucci; Eduard Butzen; Florentina Gannott; Alexander Gumann; Irina Harder; Olga Ohletz; Pascal Del’Haye

doi:10.1364/PRJ.530537

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 2, 367(2025)

On-chip microresonator dispersion engineering via segmented sidewall modulation

Masoud Kheyri^1,2, Shuangyou Zhang^1,3,7、*, Toby Bi^1,2, Arghadeep Pal^1,2, Hao Zhang^1,4, Yaojing Zhang^1,5, Abdullah Alabbadi^1,2, Haochen Yan^1,2, Alekhya Ghosh^1,2, Lewis Hill¹, Pablo Bianucci⁶, Eduard Butzen¹, Florentina Gannott¹, Alexander Gumann¹, Irina Harder¹, Olga Ohletz¹, and Pascal Del’Haye^1,2,8、*

Author Affiliations

¹Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

²Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

³Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby 2800, Denmark

⁴National Key Laboratory of Microwave Photonics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

⁵School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518172, China

⁶Department of Physics, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada

⁷e-mail: shzhan@dtu.dk

⁸e-mail: pascal.delhaye@mpl.mpg.de

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Received: May. 22, 2024

Accepted: Nov. 1, 2024

Published Online: Jan. 16, 2025

The Author Email: Shuangyou Zhang (shzhan@dtu.dk), Pascal Del’Haye (pascal.delhaye@mpl.mpg.de)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.530537

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