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| Author(s): |
Luís Alberto Mijam Barêa
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin |
| Defense date: | 2014-05-06 |
| Examining board members: |
Newton Cesário Frateschi;
Marcelo Luís Francisco Abbade;
Ben Hur Viana Borges;
Thiago Pedro Mayer Alegre;
Hugo Enrique Hernández Figueroa
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| Advisor: | Newton Cesário Frateschi |
| Abstract | |
Photonic systems based on microring resonators have a fundamental constraint given by the strict relationship among free spectral range (FSR), total quality factor (Q) and resonator size (R). In this thesis, we break this dependence employing CMOS compatible photonic molecules (PMs) based on multiple inner ring resonators coupled to an outer ring, which is coupled to a straight bus waveguide. Applying the transfer matrix method (TMM) and simulation robust programs, we project three types of PM based on scalable silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. This project shows that the coupling between two or more optical micro-cavities, allows spectral splitting and hybridization of the modes when the resonant frequencies are degenerated in the cavities, similar to weak coupling between atoms. These PMs were fabricated in a conventional CMOS Foundry and your characterization shows the emergence of doublet, triplet, quadruplet and sextuplet of degenerated resonances, with high-Q and close-spaced, only achievable with single-ring orders of magnitude larger in footprint. These results break the paradigm of the interdependence between Q, FSR and R, evidencing that is possible to have photonic lifetime, spectral spacing and footprint independents. The applications of these PMs in optical processing signal were also demonstrate in this work. We demonstrate the use of the doublet splitting for 34.2 GHz RF signal extraction by filtering the sidebands of a modulated optical signal. We also demonstrate that very compact optical modulators operating 2.75 times beyond its resonator linewidth limit may be obtained using the PM triplet splitting, with separation of ~ 55 GHz. Finally, using the quadruplet of resonances, we demonstrate four-channel all-optical wavelength multicasting using only 1 mW of control power, with converted channel spacing of 40-60 GHz (AU) | |