An on-chip tunable add-drop filter using a microtoroid resonator

Faraz Monifi, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Lan Yang, Jacob Friedlein

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Abstract

We present an add-drop filter (ADF) with a drop efficiency of 57% and quality factor of 4.5 × 106 composed of an on-chip whispering gallery mode (WGM) ultra-high quality factor (Q) microtoroid resonator side coupled to two taper fibers. Different than the exisiting microtoroid based ADF designs, we fabricated reflowed silica side walls along the microtoroid resonators to support the fiber-taper waveguides, not only making the alignment process easier but also providing mechanical stability. As an additional benefit, we observe that the drop-wavelength can be tuned without compromising drop efficiency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE Photonics Conference, IPC 2012
Pages260-261
Number of pages2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event25th IEEE Photonics Conference, IPC 2012 - Burlingame, CA, United States
Duration: Sep 23 2012Sep 27 2012

Publication series

Name2012 IEEE Photonics Conference, IPC 2012

Conference

Conference25th IEEE Photonics Conference, IPC 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBurlingame, CA
Period09/23/1209/27/12

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