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Photonics Research
Vol. 4, Issue 2, 0084 (2016)

Design of a single all-silicon ring resonator with a 150 nm free spectral range and a 100 nm tuning range around 1550 nm

Ang Li^1、2、*, Qiangsheng Huang^1、3, and Wim Bogaerts^1、2、4

Author Affiliations

¹Photonics Research Group, Department of Information Technology, Ghent University-IMEC, Ghent, Belgium

²Center for Nano- and Biophotonics (NB-photonics), Ghent University, Belgium

³State Key Laboratory for Modern Optical Instrumentation, Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Sensing Technologies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

⁴Luceda Photonics, Dendermonde, Belgium

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