Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 9, Issue 4, 571(2016)

Low dispersion broadband integrated double-slot microring resonators optical buffer

Chuan WANG, Xiaoying LIU*, Minming ZHANG, and Peng ZHOU
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  • School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
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    Microring resonator optical buffer is attractive in high-speed optical network system, but ordinary microring resonator use strip waveguide as its basic light guide medium, which cannot provide small footprint, low dispersion and high delay-bandwidth product (DBP) simultaneously. Double-slot waveguide structure was first proposed to construct racetrack-microring resonators. It was found that cascading multiple microrings can increase the delay-bandwidth and lower the dispersion of the resonators by optimizing the structure parameters. Optical buffer cascaded by 8 microrings with flat bandwidth of 20 GHz provided the delay of 150 ps and the dispersion of ~10– 7 ps/nm over 1530 – 1630 nm, and the footprint of each microring was about 51 μm2. This study can provide design methods and theoretical basis support for practical application.

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    Chuan WANG, Xiaoying LIU, Minming ZHANG, Peng ZHOU. Low dispersion broadband integrated double-slot microring resonators optical buffer[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2016, 9(4): 571

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    Paper Information

    Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Received: Nov. 27, 2014

    Accepted: Mar. 16, 2016

    Published Online: Mar. 9, 2017

    The Author Email: LIU Xiaoying (liuxy@mail.hust.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-016-0495-5

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