Silicon microring resonators

W Bogaerts, P De Heyn… - Laser & Photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
An overview is presented of the current state‐of‐the‐art in silicon nanophotonic ring
resonators. Basic theory of ring resonators is discussed, and applied to the peculiarities of …

Integrated microwave photonics

D Marpaung, C Roeloffzen, R Heideman… - Laser & Photonics …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Microwave photonics (MWP) is an emerging field in which radio frequency (RF) signals are
generated, distributed, processed and analyzed using the strength of photonic techniques. It …

Silicon integrated microwave photonic beamformer

C Zhu, L Lu, W Shan, W Xu, G Zhou, L Zhou, J Chen - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Optical beam-forming networks (OBFNs) based on optical true-time delay lines (OTTDLs)
are well known as the promising candidate for solving the bandwidth limitation of traditional …

Microwave photonic array radars

S Pan, X Ye, Y Zhang, F Zhang - IEEE Journal of Microwaves, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phased array radars have remarkable advantages over radars with single-element antenna
in terms of agility, flexibility, robustness, and reconfigurability. Current pure-electronic …

Manipulating light with strongly modulated photonic crystals

M Notomi - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, strongly modulated photonic crystals, fabricated by the state-of-the-art
semiconductor nanofabrication process, have realized various novel optical properties. This …

Continuously tunable ultra-thin silicon waveguide optical delay line

X Wang, L Zhou, R Li, J **e, L Lu, K Wu, J Chen - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
As light cannot be stopped or directly stored in any media, optical delay lines are usually
used to temporally trap the optical signals. We report a wide-range continuously tunable …

Silicon photonics: from a microresonator perspective

S Feng, T Lei, H Chen, H Cai, X Luo… - Laser & photonics …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon photonics leverages the optical, electrical and material properties of silicon and the
mature complementary metal‐oxide semiconductor (CMOS) nanofabrication technique to …

Dispersion engineered slow light in photonic crystals: a comparison

SA Schulz, L O'Faolain, DM Beggs, TP White… - Journal of …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the different types of dispersion engineered photonic crystal waveguides that
have been developed for slow light applications. We introduce the group index bandwidth …

Tunable delay lines in silicon photonics: coupled resonators and photonic crystals, a comparison

A Melloni, A Canciamilla, C Ferrari… - IEEE Photonics …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we report a direct comparison between coupled resonator optical waveguides
(CROWs) and photonic crystal waveguides (PhCWs), which have both been exploited as …

Seven-bit reconfigurable optical true time delay line based on silicon integration

J **e, L Zhou, Z Li, J Wang, J Chen - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We design, fabricate, and characterize a 7-bit reconfigurable optical true time delay line
consisting of Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) switches on the silicon photonics platform …