Thermally tunable silicon microring resonators with ultralow tuning power

We present thermally tunable silicon coupled resonators optical waveguide (CROW) with an ultralow tuning power of 1.26mW per free spectral range by exploiting thermal isolation trenches close to the ring waveguides. When the micro-rings space is 300μm, the thermal crosstalk is 1.05 pm.

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