Advanced silicon coupled optical microring resonator devices and applications

该研究是在集成硅光子器件领域，重点是光学微谐振器作为光通信和信号处理的一种使能技术。 由于其紧凑的尺寸，高品质因数，易于制造和集成，回音壁模式微波谐振器作为许多重要器件，如激光器，调制器，滤波器，开关的关键构件。 最近出现的硅作为一个突出的集成光子学平台，也推动了紧凑，高功能的微加工为基础的设备，可以与传统的互补金属氧化物半导体（CMOS）电子无缝集成的发展。 本提案的目的是通过探索新的器件结构、新的设计技术和全新的器件物理来探索光学微腔研究和应用的新方向。 重点将放在先进的耦合microns架构，在线性和非线性耦合腔电动制度，和他们的实验实现硅光子平台。 其目的是利用紧凑，高品质因数的硅微谐振器的使能特性，探索新的器件物理和新的应用在光信号处理，光子逻辑运算，光源，并可能量子信息处理。 微谐振器正在发展成为集成光子技术中的关键和普遍存在的组件。 惠普、英特尔和IBM等主要的电子工业领导者已经开始探索用于下一代大容量计算机系统中的片上光网络的微谐振器技术。 拟议的研究旨在建立在我们正在进行的研究在该领域的势头，有助于高素质人才的培训，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.