• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 18, Issue 1, 013601 (2020)
Fenghe Yang1、2、3, Pengfei Sun1、3, Ruixuan Chen1、3, and Zhiping Zhou1、2、3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 2Peking University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen 518057, China
  • 3Nano-optoelectronics Frontier Center of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • show less
    DOI: 10.3788/COL202018.013601 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Fenghe Yang, Pengfei Sun, Ruixuan Chen, Zhiping Zhou. A controllable coupling structure for silicon microring resonators based on adiabatic elimination[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2020, 18(1): 013601 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Optical microring resonators are extensively employed in a wide range of physical studies and applications due to the resonance enhancement property. Incorporating coupling control of a microring resonator is necessary in many scenarios, but modifications are essentially added to the resonator and impair the capability of optical enhancement. Here, we propose a flexible coupling structure based on adiabatic elimination that allows low-loss active coupling control without any modifications to the resonators. The self-coupling coefficient can be monotonically or non-monotonically controllable by the proposed coupler, potentially at a high speed. The characteristic of the coupler when implemented in silicon microring resonators is investigated in detail using substantiated analytical theory and experiments. This work provides a general method in coupling control while ensuring the resonance enhancement property, making active coupling control in a resonator-waveguide system feasible.

    ddz[A1A2A3]=i[0κ0κΔβ+iγκ0κ0][A1A2A3].(1)

    View in Article

    A1,3(z)=12[cos(Γz)iΔβ+iγ2Γsin(Γz)]e12i(Δβ+iγ)z±12,A2(z)=iκΓsin(Γz)e12i(Δβ+iγ)z,Γ=12Δβ2+8κ2+2iΔβγγ2.(2)

    View in Article

    T1=E1E0=(reff2+teff2)αeiϕreffreffαeiϕ1,T2=E2E0=A2(z=L)ei(β2Δβ)L(reffiteff)αeiϕ1reffαeiϕ1.(3)

    View in Article

    CL=10lg(12M2+12),M=cos(Γz)iΔβ+iγ2Γsin(Γz).(4)

    View in Article

    Fenghe Yang, Pengfei Sun, Ruixuan Chen, Zhiping Zhou. A controllable coupling structure for silicon microring resonators based on adiabatic elimination[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2020, 18(1): 013601
    Download Citation