Resolving the thermal challenges for silicon microring resonator devices

K Padmaraju, K Bergman - Nanophotonics, 2014 - degruyter.com
Silicon microring resonators have been hailed for their potential use in next-generation
optical interconnects. However, the functionality of silicon microring based devices suffer …

Silicon photonic integrated circuits for wavelength-division multiplexing applications

P Dong - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon photonics will provide low-cost, high-bandwidth and compact optical components for
a wide range of applications in optical communications and interconnects. One of the cited …

Athermal silicon microring resonators with titanium oxide cladding

B Guha, J Cardenas, M Lipson - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We describe a novel approach for CMOS-compatible passively temperature insensitive
silicon based optical devices using titanium oxide cladding which has a negative thermo …

Wavelength tuning and stabilization of microring-based filters using silicon in-resonator photoconductive heaters

H Jayatilleka, K Murray, MÁ Guillén-Torres… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that n-doped resistive heaters in silicon waveguides show photoconductive
effects with high responsivities. These photoconductive heaters, integrated into microring …

Thermal stabilization of a microring modulator using feedback control

K Padmaraju, J Chan, L Chen, M Lipson… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We describe and demonstrate the use of a feedback control system to thermally stabilize a
silicon microring modulator subjected to a thermally volatile environment. Furthermore, we …

Wavelength locking and thermally stabilizing microring resonators using dithering signals

K Padmaraju, DF Logan, T Shiraishi… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The bandwidth bottleneck looming for traditional electronic interconnects has driven the
consideration of optical communications technologies as realized through the …

A monolithically-integrated chip-to-chip optical link in bulk CMOS

C Sun, M Georgas, J Orcutt, B Moss… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Silicon-photonics is an emerging technology that can overcome the tradeoffs faced by
traditional electrical I/O. Due to ballooning development costs for advanced CMOS nodes …

Comprehensive design space exploration of silicon photonic interconnects

M Bahadori, S Rumley, D Nikolova… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The paper presents a comprehensive physical layer design and modeling platform for
silicon photonic interconnects. The platform is based on explicit closed-form expressions for …

Dithering‐based real‐time control of cascaded silicon photonic devices by means of non‐invasive detectors

F Zanetto, V Grimaldi, F Toso, E Guglielmi… - IET …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Real‐time control of multiple cascaded devices is a key requirement for the development of
complex silicon photonic circuits performing new sophisticated optical functionalities. This …

Towards adaptively tuned silicon microring resonators for optical networks-on-chip applications

Y Zhang, Y Li, S Feng, AW Poon - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose to monitor the spectral alignment of silicon microring resonators with an optical
carrier in the 1300/1550 nm wavelengths by photodetecting the microring internal power …