Ultra-wide band signal generation using a silicon microring resonator tuned to an NRZ-DPSK modulated optical carrier is proposed and demonstrated. The scheme is shown to enable the generation of UWB signals with switchable polarity and tunable bandwidth by simply tuning the coupling regions of the microring resonator. Monocycle pulses with both negative and positive polarities are successfully ...

We present the first system penalty measurements for all-optical wavelength conversion in an integrated ring resonator. We achieve wavelength conversion over a range of 27.7nm in the C-band at 2.5 Gb/s by exploiting four wave mixing in a CMOS compatible, high index glass ring resonator at ~22 dBm average pump power, obtaining < 0.3 dB system penalty.

A novel design of a blood cleaner on-chip using an optical waveguide known as a PANDA ring resonator is proposed. By controlling some suitable parameters, the optical vortices (gradient optical fields/wells) can be generated and used to form the trapping tools in the same way as optical tweezers. In operation, the trapping force is formed by the combination between the gradient field and scatte...

Direct time-domain measurement of tunable optical delay in a silicon resonating structure is presented. The structure is composed by a double-ring resonator, whose spectrum has a narrow transparency peak with low group velocity analogous to that in electromagnetically induced transparency. Effective group indices from 90 to 290 are obtained by tuning the resonator thermally. The measurements ag...

We investigate theoretically and experimentally the characteristics, performance and possible applications of coupled resonator optical waveguides (CROWs). The ability to engineer the dispersion properties of a CROW and especially the ability to realize ultra-slow group velocities paves the way for various applications such as delay lines, optical memories and all-optical switching. Simple anal...

We describe a device constructed of a sequence of microresonators coupled to an optical waveguide. The in ̄uence of these resonators is to enhance nonlinearities and to induce strong dispersive e€ ects, leading to exotic optical properties including slow and superluminal group velocities of propagation. In recent years there has been a ̄urry of activity aimed at the development of techniques tha...

We show that transmission SNOM (T-SNOM) can be used for imaging optical intensity distributions in a photonic crystal resonator with a resolution better than 100 nm. Two alternatives are explored: contact and tapping mode operation. ©2007 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (180.5810 ) Scanning microscopy; (170.4520) Optical confinement and manipulation; (130.3120) Integrated optics devices;...

A key device in all-optical networks is the optical filter. Ring resonator filters on the basis of GaInAsP / InP with improved filter response and increased functionality using integrated semiconductor optical amplifiers are presented. 2003 Optical Society of America OCIS codes: (130.3120) Integrated optics devices, (230.5750) Resonators

We present experimental evidence of the optical spring effect in a silica microtoroid resonator. The variation of the measured mechanical resonant frequency as a function of optical power, optical coupling, and optical detuning is in very good agreement with a model for radiation-pressure-induced rigidity in a silica microtoroid.

We present a compact diagnostic breadboard that is based on an optical ring resonator for measuring beam quality and pointing of single-frequency continuous wave lasers at a wavelength of 1064 nm. To determine the beam quality of the coherent test beam, this optical resonator is used to perform a mode decomposition into Hermite-Gaussian modes. For our laser system, a power fraction in the funda...