Phase Controlled Bistability in Silicon Microring Resonators for Nonlinear Photonics

摘要

Resonance shift and bistability in a silicon microring resonator operating at higher optical power levels pose serious difficulties, especially in nonlinear four wave mixing process. A solution of parking a laser wavelength around any of the resonances of a microring resonator and operating at any power levels is explored by integrating a microheater. We have shown with the existing theoretical model that the previous history of phase detuning in a silicon microring resonator determines the effective gain in stimulated four wave mixing process. The experimental results have been shown to be closely matching with the simulation results. For a microring resonator of radius 50?&inline-formula&&tex-math notation="LaTeX"&$mu$&/tex-math&&/inline-formula&m, an improved stimulated four wave mixing gain of &inline-formula&&tex-math notation="LaTeX"&$sim$&/tex-math&&/inline-formula& 11.6?dB has been observed while thermo-optically blue-shifting resonances in comparison to that of red-shifting resonances, for a launched pump power of 8.4?mW operating at a slightly off-resonant wavelength &inline-formula&&tex-math notation="LaTeX"&$lambda _p$&/tex-math&&/inline-formula&. The proposed technique can be used in designing actively controlled efficient photon sources in a large-scale integrated quantum photonic circuit operating at &inline-formula&&tex-math notation="LaTeX"&$lambda sim$&/tex-math&&/inline-formula& 1550?nm.