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Yule Xiong

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Proceedings Article | 8 March 2014 Paper

Silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer racetrack microring for sensing

Yule Xiong, Winnie Ye

Proceedings Volume 8990, 89901H (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2037405

KEYWORDS: Microrings, Waveguides, Sensors, Refractive index, Silicon, Brain-machine interfaces, Resonators, Mach-Zehnder interferometers, Structural design, Biomedical optics

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SOI-based microring resonators (MRRs) have attracted extensive attentions as ultra-compact sensors. Recently, a new structure design combining a ring and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) was proposed as sensors for biomedical applications, and as modulators for communications applications. In this design, the MZI uses two identical couplers, where one arm is formed by connecting the access waveguide of the couplers, while the other arm is part of the microring. Such a device may have only one major resonance with a high extinction ratio in a very broad wavelength span (quasi-free spectral range, quasi-FSR), which offers a very large measurement range for sensing applications. 2×2 multimode interference (MMI) couplers are used to couple the microring and the bus waveguides as MMI couplers have broader wavelength responses. We present the first experimental demonstration of the MMI-coupled MZI racetrack microrings for sensing applications. Two types of MMI-coupled MZI racetrack microrings are discussed: one with wire waveguides, and the other using slotted waveguides. For the MZI racetrack microring using wire waveguides, we achieve a quasi-FSR of 34.3 nm near the wavelength of 1520 nm. The corresponding major resonance of the MZI racetrack microring demonstrates a high extinction ratio of ~22.4 dB with a full-width-half-maximum (FWHM) of 1.94 nm, and a quality factor Q of ~800. On the other hand, the quasi-FSR of the MZI racetrack microring with slot waveguides is 23.2 nm near the wavelength of 1540 nm; and the extinction ratio of the major resonance is ~24.5 dB with λ_FWHM=0.82 nm and Q=~1,900. To demonstrate the uses for sensing applications, we measure the resonance shifts corresponding to the concentration change of the ambient aqueous solutions of sucrose. DI water is used as the reference for calibration to avoid any other variations, e.g. temperature change. Experiments show that the sensitivities of the MZI racetrack microring sensors with wire and slot waveguides are 101.7 nm/RIU and 166.7 nm/RIU, respectively.

Proceedings Article | 14 March 2013 Paper

All-optical single resonance control using a silicon-based ring-assisted Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Yule Xiong, Winnie Ye

Proceedings Volume 8629, 86291D (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2000995

KEYWORDS: Resonators, Signal attenuation, Silicon, Modulation, Switches, Switching, Mach-Zehnder interferometers, Raman scattering, Phase shifts, Waveguides

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