Polymer microring coupled-resonator optical waveguides

Poon, Joyce K. S.; Zhu, Lin; DeRose, Guy A.; Yariv, Amnon

doi:10.1109/jlt.2006.870971

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“…In recent literature, CROWs based on SiON [43,88,89], polymers (poly(methyl methacrylate) or PMMA) [90,103], Hydex glass [41], and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) [58,64,65,[104][105][106][107] technologies have been demonstrated. Figure 5 shows images of some of these devices, whose figures of merit are summarized in Table 1.…”

Section: Technologies For Ring-based Crowsmentioning

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The first decade of coupled resonator optical waveguides: bringing slow light to applications

Morichetti

Ferrari

Canciamilla

et al. 2011

Laser & Photonics Reviews

157

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A century after the first optical cavity, coupled resonator optical waveguides (CROWs) were conceived as a new way to guide light on a photonic chip. Controlling chains of coupled resonators to let light propagate through, with a reduced speed and enhanced intensity, boosting light-matter interaction while keeping information undistorted: this was the fascinating promise of CROWs, but also one of the most ambitious challenges ever set for integrated optics. The first decade of the history of CROWs is discussed in this review, from the original idea to recent applications, panning through the technological platforms that have been employed to realize these structures. Design criteria and management issues, fundamental limits, and sensitivity to fabrication tolerances are discussed to make the reader aware of the performance of state-of-the-art CROWs and to provide a realistic perspective of future applicative horizons.

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Section: Technologies For Ring-based Crowsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The first decade of coupled resonator optical waveguides: bringing slow light to applications

Morichetti

Ferrari

Canciamilla

et al. 2011

Laser & Photonics Reviews

157

125

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“…Microring resonators were fabricated with discussed cylindrical waveguide technology. Several groups have reported a successful fabrication of polymer microring and microracetrack resonators by electron beam lithography [19,20] and nanoimprint lithography [16,21], however, contact optical lithography is still the most cost-effective technique for polymer PICs [22]. Analogically to straight waveguides, microring resonators composed of rectangular and cylindrical waveguides were compared.…”

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Thermal Reflow Engineered Cylindrical Polymer Waveguides for Optical Interconnects

Marinins

Ozoliņš

Pang

et al. 2018

IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett.

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-Integrated polymer photonics brings low cost and high fabrication flexibility to optoelectronic industry. However, this platform needs to overcome several issues to be efficient enough for practical applications. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate a decrease of propagation losses and polarization sensitivity of polymer waveguide-based devices as a result of thermal treatment. Heating of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) strip optical waveguides above the glass transition temperature initiates a waveguide surface reflow due to a decrease of a polymer viscosity and surface tension energy. This results in a decrease of surface roughness and shape change from rectangular to cylindrical; thus, scattering losses and polarization sensitivity are minimized.

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“…Silica-on-silicon and silicon nitride technologies allow the fabrication of resonators with very low loss [41]- [43], but LiNbO 3 [44], glass [45,46], silicon [47], polymers [48], and InP [49,50] are also used. Along with these fully passive ring resonators, some configurations, including an optical amplifier to compensate losses, have been also proposed and experimented [51,52].…”

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Recent advances in miniaturized optical gyroscopes

Dell’Olio

Tatoli

Ciminelli

et al. 2014

J. Eur. Opt. Soc.-Rapid Publ.

110

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Low-cost chip-scale optoelectronic gyroscopes having a resolution ≤ 10 • /h and a good reliability also in harsh environments could have a strong impact on the medium/high performance gyro market, which is currently dominated by well-established bulk optical angular velocity sensors. The R&D activity aiming at the demonstration of those miniaturized sensors is crucial for aerospace/defense industry, and thus it is attracting an increasing research effort and notably funds.In this paper the recent technological advances on the compact optoelectronic gyroscopes with low weight and high energy saving are reviewed. Attention is paid to both the so-called gyroscope-on-a-chip, which is a novel sensor, at the infantile stage, whose optical components are monolithically integrated on a single indium phosphide chip, and to a new ultra-high Q ring resonator for gyro applications with a configuration including a 1D photonic crystal in the resonant path. The emerging field of the gyros based on passive ring cavities, which have already shown performance comparable with that of optical fiber gyros, is also discussed.

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Polymer microring coupled-resonator optical waveguides

Cited by 50 publications

References 31 publications

The first decade of coupled resonator optical waveguides: bringing slow light to applications

The first decade of coupled resonator optical waveguides: bringing slow light to applications

Thermal Reflow Engineered Cylindrical Polymer Waveguides for Optical Interconnects

Recent advances in miniaturized optical gyroscopes

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