Vol. 24, No. 20 | 3 Oct 2016 | OPTICS EXPRESS 22741
C-band swept wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with a high-Q tunable interior-ridge silicon microring cavity NANXI LI,1,2,* ERMAN TIMURDOGAN,1 CHRISTOPHER V. POULTON,1 MATTHEW BYRD,1 EMIR SALIH MAGDEN,1 ZHAN SU,1 PURNAWIRMAN,1 GERALD LEAKE,3 DOUGLAS D. COOLBAUGH,3 DIEDRIK VERMEULEN,1 AND MICHAEL R. WATTS1 1 Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA 2 John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA 3 College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, University at Albany, Albany, New York 12203, USA *
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Abstract: We demonstrate swept-wavelength operation of an erbium-doped fiber laser using a tunable silicon microring cavity. The microring cavity is designed to have 35 nm free spectral range, a high Q of 1.5 × 105, and low insertion loss of
