Importance of Intrinsic- Q in Microring-Based Optical Filters and Dispersion-Compensation Devices
Hossein-Zadeh, M.
Vahala, K.J.
California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena;
This paper appears in: Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
Publication Date: July15, 2007
Volume: 19,
Issue: 14
On page(s): 1045-1047
ISSN: 1041-1135
INSPEC Accession Number: 9600575
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/LPT.2007.899456
Current Version Published: 2007-06-25
Abstract
We investigate the impact of the intrinsic-Q of the resonant poles on the performance of multiring-based optical filters and dispersion-compensating devices. We highlight the role of quality factor by defining figures-of-merit for some specific filter configurations.
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