Wide tuning of silicon-on-insulator ring resonators with a liquid crystal cladding

Wout De Cort; Jeroen Beeckman; Tom Claes; Kristiaan Neyts; Roel Baets

doi:10.1364/OL.36.003876

Wide tuning of silicon-on-insulator ring resonators with a liquid crystal cladding

Wout De Cort^*, Jeroen Beeckman, Tom Claes, Kristiaan Neyts, Roel Baets

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Abstract

Wide electrical tuning of silicon-on-insulator ring resonators is demonstrated using a top cladding layer of nematic liquid crystals. A tuning range of 31nm is demonstrated for ring resonators guiding the TM mode, covering nearly the entire C-band of optical communications. Ring resonators guiding the TE mode can be tuned over 4.5nm. The combination of a liquid crystal director calculation and a fully anisotropic mode solver confirms the interpretation of these experimental results. The realization of broad and low-power tuning in silicon-on-insulator opens up new opportunities in the field of tunable lasers, filters, and detectors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3876-3878
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	36
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.003876
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2011
Externally published	Yes

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