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Silicon photonics thermal phase shifter with reduced temperature range

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OSTI ID:1110780

Optical devices, phased array systems and methods of phase-shifting an input signal are provided. An optical device includes a microresonator and a waveguide for receiving an input optical signal. The waveguide includes a segment coupled to the microresonator with a coupling coefficient such that the waveguide is overcoupled to the microresonator. The microresonator received the input optical signal via the waveguide and phase-shifts the input optical signal to form an output optical signal. The output optical signal is coupled into the waveguide via the microresonator and transmitted by the waveguide. At an operating point of the optical device, the coupling coefficient is selected to reduce a change in an amplitude of the output optical signal and to increase a change in a phase of the output optical signal, relative to the input optical signal.

Research Organization:
SNL-A (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM (United States))
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Assignee:
Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
Patent Number(s):
8,610,994
Application Number:
13/368,141
OSTI ID:
1110780
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Planar waveguide-coupled, high-index-contrast, high-Q resonators in chalcogenide glass for sensing journal January 2008
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