Penalty-free transmission in a silicon coupled resonator optical waveguide over the full C-band

Ferrari, C., Canciamilla, A., Morichetti, F., Sorel, M. and Melloni, A. (2011) Penalty-free transmission in a silicon coupled resonator optical waveguide over the full C-band. Optics Letters, 36(19), pp. 3948-3950. (doi: 10.1364/OL.36.003948)

Abstract

We show that optical signal propagation in a coupled resonator optical waveguide (CROW) does not introduce additional performance penalties with respect to propagation in a conventional optical waveguide. The result is demonstrated in a low-loss (1 dB) eight-ring silicon CROW by means of bit error rate measurements performed over the whole telecommunication C-band. An extensive characterization of the CROW parameters in terms of insertion loss, bandwidth, in-band intensity ripple, crosstalk, and sensitivity to thermal drifts is presented.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Sorel, Professor Marc
• Authors: Ferrari, C., Canciamilla, A., Morichetti, F., Sorel, M., and Melloni, A.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering
• Journal Name: Optics Letters
• ISSN: 0146-9592
• ISSN (Online): 1539-4794