Single-microresonator-based dynamic photonic molecule switch

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2024.jth2a.198
• Publication Date: 2024-09-05T16:16:41Z
• Authors: Zihan Tao; Bitao Shen; Wencan Li; Luwen Xing; Haoyu Wang; Yichen Wu; Yuansheng Tao; Yan Zhou; Yandong He; Chao Peng; Haowen Shu; Xingjun Wang

We propose a dynamic on-chip photonic molecule switch in an ultra-compact multimode silicon microring, allowing for flexible either nonlinear control or loss reduction. This strategy leads to record low-loss transition (Qi ~ 10 million) under hundred-GHz FSR level.