28 December 2023 Athermal waveguides and resonators with three zero-thermal-drift wavelengths
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Abstract

Microresonators have been extensively studied in integrated photonics over the past two decades. However, the thermal frequency drift of a resonator limits its applications in practice. Athermal microresonators, as a passive solution, have become highly attractive. We propose two types of broadband athermal waveguides, with three zero-thermal-drift wavelengths achieved through mode anti-crossing effect, for the first time. For the polymer-coated waveguide, the effective thermo-optical coefficient (TOC) has a variation of ±1.5×106/K from 1350 to 1790 nm. For the TiO2-coated waveguide, the effective TOC has a variation of ±1.5×106/K from 1510 to 2090 nm. Over such a wide band of 440 or 580 nm, both the athermal microring resonators show excellent athermal property of <1 pm/K. The broadband athermal characteristics of the resonators would enable a wide variety of applications, e.g., wavelength-division multiplexing filters, modulators, lasers, sensors, and nonlinear optical sources.

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Peishan Han, Liuqing He, Lijuan Xu, and Lin Zhang "Athermal waveguides and resonators with three zero-thermal-drift wavelengths," Journal of Nanophotonics 17(4), 046005 (28 December 2023). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.17.046005
Received: 3 August 2023; Accepted: 24 October 2023; Published: 28 December 2023
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KEYWORDS
Waveguides

Silicon carbide

Microresonators

Silicon

Resonators

Microrings

Refractive index

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