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Microring Resonators and Silicon Photonics

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Silicon Photonics is the technological to face the future challenges in data communications and processing. This technology follows the same paradigm as the technological revolution of the integrated circuit industry, that is, the miniaturization and the standardization. One of the most important building blocks in Silicon Photonics is the microresonator, a circular optical cavity, which enables many different passive and active optical functions. Here, we will describe the new physics of the intermodal coupling, which occurs when multi radial mode resonators are coupled to waveguides, and of the optical chaos, which develops in coupled sequence of resonators. In addition, an application of resonators in the label-free biosensing will be discussed.

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  1. Laura Pasquardini

    Present address: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Via Sommarive 9, I-38123, Trento, Italy

  2. Nikola Prltjaga

    Present address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, S3 7RH, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  3. Santanu Mana

    Present address: Department of Physics and Meteorology, Indian Institute of Technology, 721302, Kharagpur, India

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  1. Nanoscience Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, I-38123, Trento, Italy

    Fernando Ramiro-Manzano, Stefano Biasi, Mattia Mancinelli, Tatevik Chalyan, Fabio Turri, Massimo Borghi, Davide Gandolfi, Romain Guider, Alessandro Trenti, Nikola Prltjaga, Santanu Mana & Lorenzo Pavesi

  2. Centre for Materials and Microsystems, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Santa Croce, 77, I-38123, Trento, Italy

    Martino Bernard, Mher Ghulinyan, Alina Samusenko & Georg Pucker

  3. INO-CNR BEC Center and Department of Physics, University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, I-38123, Trento, Italy

    Pierre-É. Larré & Iacopo Carusotto

  4. LaBSSAH, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Santa Croce, 77, I-38123, Trento, Italy

    Laura Pasquardini

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Ramiro-Manzano, F., Biasi, S., Bernard, M. et al. Microring Resonators and Silicon Photonics. MRS Advances 1, 3281–3293 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2016.393

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