1. Optical bistable SOI micro-ring resonators for memory applications
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Nikitin, Andrey A., Ryabcev, Ilya A., Nikitin, Aleksei A., Kondrashov, Alexander V., Semenov, Alexander A., Konkin, Dmitry A., Kokolov, Andrey A., Sheyerman, Feodor I., Babak, Leonid I., and Ustinov, Alexey B.
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Physics - Optics - Abstract
The present work focuses on experimental investigations of a bistabile silicon-on-insulator (SOI) micro-ring resonator (MRR). The resonator exploits a continuous-wave operation of the carrier-induced bistability demonstrating a stable hysteresis response at the through and drop ports when the input power exceeds the threshold value. Flipping the optical input power provides a convenient mechanism for a switching of the MRR output characteristics between two steady states having a long holding time. The transition of the resonator output between these states is experimentally investigated. It is shown that the switching speed is limited by a low-to-high transition of 188 ns. Obtained results shows an application of the passive SOI MRR as an all-optical memory cell with two complementary outputs.
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- 2021
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