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  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Vol. 36,
  • Issue 2,
  • pp. 210-218
  • (2018)

Automatic Configuration and Wavelength Locking of Coupled Silicon Ring Resonators

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Abstract

Coupled silicon ring resonator filters offer high-order spectral features such as steep roll-offs, high extinction ratios, and wide pass-bands, which are attractive to many applications in telecommunications and quantum computing systems. However, so far, their sensitivity to fabrication and temperature variations have limited the usability of such filters in practical applications. Here, by using in-resonator photoconductive heaters (IRPHs) to both sense and tune the resonance conditions of ring resonators, we demonstrate automatic configuration and wavelength locking of multiring resonator filters to an input laser's wavelength. We demonstrate the automatic configuration of a four-ring Vernier filter across a 36.7-nm wavelength range spanning the entire C-band and the wavelength locking of the same filter to counteract a practical chip temperature variation of 65 ${^\circ }$ C. As IRPHs do not require additional material depositions, photodetectors, or power taps and use the same contact pads for both the sense and the tune operations, these results are achieved without compromising the cost or area of the devices. Furthermore, by localizing the feedback loops to only rely on the resonance conditions of adjacent rings, we present a tuning algorithm in which the number of iterations scales linearly with the number of coupled rings in the system. As this method does not rely on the output spectral shape of the system, it is, in general, applicable to a wide range of coupled resonator systems. Our results pave a path toward practical deployment of high-order and large-scale silicon ring resonator systems.

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