Photoconductive Heaters Enable Control of Large-Scale Silicon Photonic Ring Resonator Circuits
arXiv:1812.09317 · doi:10.1364/OPTICA.6.000084
Abstract
A multitude of large-scale silicon photonic systems based on ring resonators have been envisioned for applications ranging from biomedical sensing to quantum computing and machine learning. Yet, due to the lack of a scalable solution for controlling ring resonators, practical demonstrations have been limited to systems with only a few rings. Here, we demonstrate that large systems can be controlled by using only doped waveguide elements inside their ringswhile preserving their area and cost. We measure the large photoconductive changes of the waveguides for monitoring the rings' resonance conditions across high-dynamic ranges and leverage their thermo-optic effects for tuning. This allows us to control ring resonators without requiring additional components, complex tuning algorithms, or additional electrical I/Os. We demonstrate automatic resonance alignment of 31 rings of a 16 x 16 switch and of a 14-ring coupled resonator optical waveguide, making them the largest, yet most compact, automatically controlled silicon ring resonator circuits to date, to the best of our knowledge.
11 pages, 7 figures. Submitted to Optica on 24th Aug. 2018
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