Advanced silicon coupled optical microring resonator devices and applications

拟议的研究是在集成硅光子器件领域，重点是光学微环谐振器作为光通信和信号处理的使能技术。由于其紧凑的尺寸、高品质因数以及易于制造和集成，回音廊模式微环谐振器是许多重要器件的关键构件，例如激光器、调制器、滤光器、开关。最近硅作为一种重要的集成光电子平台的出现也推动了紧凑型、高功能微环器件的发展，这些器件可以与传统的互补金属氧化物半导体(CMOS)电子设备无缝集成。 该提案的目的是通过探索新的器件结构、新的设计技术和根本上的新的器件物理来探索光学微环谐振器研究和应用的新方向。重点介绍在线性和非线性耦合腔电动力学条件下的先进耦合微环结构及其在硅光子学平台上的实验实现。其目的是利用紧凑、高品质因数硅微环谐振器的使能特性，在光学信号处理、光子逻辑操作、光源以及可能的量子信息处理中探索新的器件物理和新的应用。 微环谐振器正在发展成为集成光电子技术中的关键和无处不在的组件。惠普、英特尔和IBM等主要电子行业领先者已经开始探索用于下一代大容量计算机系统中片上光网络的微环谐振器技术。拟议的研究旨在加强我们在这一领域正在进行的研究的势头，为高素质人才的培训做出贡献，并保持加拿大在激光和光子学领域的竞争力。

The proposed research is in the area of integrated Silicon photonic devices, with focus on optical microring resonators as an enabling technology for optical communication and signal processing. Due to their compact sizes, high quality factors, and ease of fabrication and integration, whispering-gallery-mode microring resonators serve as a key building block for many important devices such as lasers, modulators, filters, switches. The recent emergence of Silicon as a prominent integrated photonics platform has also fueled the development of compact, highly functional microring-based devices that can be integrated seamlessly with conventional Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) electronics. The objective of this proposal is to explore new directions in optical microring resonator research and applications by exploring new device architectures, new design techniques, and fundamentally new device physics. Emphasis will be placed on advanced coupled-microring architectures, in both linear and nonlinear coupled-cavity electrodynamic regimes, and their experimental realization on the Silicon photonics platform. The aim is to leverage the enabling properties of compact, high-quality-factor Silicon microring resonators to explore new device physics and novel applications in optical signal processing, photonic logic operations, light sources, and possibly quantum information processing. Microring resonators are evolving to become a key and ubiquitous component in integrated photonics technology. Major electronics industry leaders such as HP, Intel and IBM have begun to explore microring resonator technology for on-chip optical networks in next generation high-capacity computer systems. The proposed research seeks to build on the momentum of our on-going research in the area, contribute to the training of highly-qualified personnel, and maintain Canada's competitiveness in the field of lasers and photonics.