Modeling and simulation of the effect of surface roughness on properties of silicon-on-insulator optical ring resonator coupled with a straight waveguide

Hui Zhang; Tong Li; Aoqun Jian; Shengbo Sang; Chenyang Xue; Wendong Zhang

doi:10.1117/1.OE.54.12.125101

7 December 2015 Modeling and simulation of the effect of surface roughness on properties of silicon-on-insulator optical ring resonator coupled with a straight waveguide

Hui Zhang, Tong Li, Aoqun Jian, Shengbo Sang, Chenyang Xue, Wendong Zhang

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 54, Issue 12, 125101 (December 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.12.125101

Abstract

This paper describes a relatively general method based on finite-difference time-domain for modeling the scattering loss of silicon nano-optical waveguides as well as quality factor Q of the waveguide resonators. This paper explains how the surface roughness affects the performance of silicon-on-insulator optical ring resonators. Furthermore, the model we built in this paper was also employed to design and optimize the structure of an optical resonator and a good match was found between calculated and measured data. Also, our results were compared with those obtained by other approaches, again proving that the model worked well.

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Hui Zhang, Tong Li, Aoqun Jian, Shengbo Sang, Chenyang Xue, and Wendong Zhang "Modeling and simulation of the effect of surface roughness on properties of silicon-on-insulator optical ring resonator coupled with a straight waveguide," Optical Engineering 54(12), 125101 (7 December 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.54.12.125101

Published: 7 December 2015

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