Title:
Ultra-high Q planar silicon microdisk resonators for chip-scale silicon photonics

dc.contributor.author Soltani, Mohammad en_US
dc.contributor.author Yegnanarayanan, Siva en_US
dc.contributor.author Adibi, Ali en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2012-11-06T21:02:56Z
dc.date.available 2012-11-06T21:02:56Z
dc.date.issued 2007-04
dc.description © 2007 Optical Society of America en_US
dc.description The definitive version of this paper is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.15.004694 en_US
dc.description DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.004694 en_US
dc.description.abstract We report the fabrication and experimental characterization of an ultra-high Q microdisk resonator in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. We examine the role of the substrate in the performance of such microdisk resonators. While substrate leakage loss has warranted the necessity of substrate undercut structures in the past, we show here that the substrate has a very useful role to play for both passive chip-scale device integration as well as active electronic device integration. Two device architectures for the disk-on-substrate are studied in order to assess the possibility of such an integration of high Q resonators and active components. Using an optimized process for fabrication of such a resonator device, we experimentally demonstrate a Q~3×10 ⁶, corresponding to a propagation loss ~0.16 dB/cm. This, to our knowledge, is the maximum Q observed for silicon microdisk cavities of this size for disk-on-substrate structures. Critical coupling for a resonance mode with an unloaded Q~0.7×10 ⁶ is observed. We also report a detailed comparison of the obtained experimental resonance spectrum with the theoretical and simulation analysis. The issue of waveguide-cavity coupling is investigated in detail and the conditions necessary for the existence or lack of critical coupling is elaborated. en_US
dc.identifier.citation Soltani, Mohammad and Yegnanarayanan, Siva and Adibi, Ali, "Ultra-high Q planar silicon microdisk resonators for chip-scale silicon photonics," Optics Express, 15, 8, 4694-4704 (April 16 2007) en_US
dc.identifier.doi 10.1364/OE.15.004694
dc.identifier.issn 1094-4087
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45271
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.publisher.original Optical Society of America en_US
dc.subject Integrated optics devices en_US
dc.subject Resonators en_US
dc.title Ultra-high Q planar silicon microdisk resonators for chip-scale silicon photonics en_US
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dc.type.genre Article
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.author Adibi, Ali
local.contributor.corporatename Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics
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