A simple and novel method to obtain an FSR free silicon ring resonator

Abstract

A simple and novel method to make a silicon ring resonator without the limit of free spectral range (FSR) is presented. For many applications, a ring resonator is desired with an ultra-wide FSR, a high quality factor, a large extinction ratio and low-fabrication complexity. In this paper we propose a novel method to obtain such a ring resonator, which is a single all-silicon microring with a FSR as large as 150 nm around 1550 nm. It's based on the well-known phenomenon of resonance splitting.