Lateral leakage in TM-like whispering gallery mode of thin-ridge silicon-on-insulator disk resonators
Author(s) -
Thach G. Nguyen,
Ravi S. Tummidi,
Thomas Koch,
Arnan Mitchell
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
optics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1071-2763
pISSN - 0146-9592
DOI - 10.1364/ol.34.000980
Subject(s) - silicon on insulator , whispering gallery wave , resonator , materials science , optics , leakage (economics) , silicon , radius , thin film , insulator (electricity) , optoelectronics , physics , computer security , computer science , economics , macroeconomics , nanotechnology
The leakage loss due to TM-TE mode coupling of TM-like whispering gallery mode in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) thin-ridge disk resonators is investigated for the first time to the best of our knowledge. We show that the propagation losses of TM-like mode in thin-ridge SOI disk resonators are significantly impacted by the radius of the disk. This behavior is predicted by a simple phenomenological model as well as a rigorous mode matching simulation.
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