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    Opt Express. 2010 Sep 13;18(19):20298-304. doi: 10.1364/OE.18.020298.

    Thermally tunable silicon racetrack resonators with ultralow tuning power.

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    Kotura Inc., 2630 Corporate Place, Monterey Park, CA 91754, USA. pdong@kotura.com

    Abstract

    We present thermally tunable silicon racetrack resonators with an ultralow tuning power of 2.4 mW per free spectral range. The use of free-standing silicon racetrack resonators with undercut structures significantly enhances the tuning efficiency, with one order of magnitude improvement of that for previously demonstrated thermo-optic devices without undercuts. The 10%-90% switching time is demonstrated to be ~170 µs. Such low-power tunable micro-resonators are particularly useful as multiplexing devices and wavelength-tunable silicon microcavity modulators.

    PMID:
    20940921
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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