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Photonic Microresonator Research and Applications

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Photonic microresonators exhibit a great potential for various advanced functions for communication and signal processing applications. In this chapter, we briefly review recent advances in achieving space-, power-, and spectrally efficient chip-scale optical devices and subsystems using microresonators. With an emphasis on signal integrity and system performance, we describe microresonator-based channel adding/dropping in time-division-multiplexing systems, signal generation and demodulation for advanced optical data formats, and frequency comb generation for arbitrary waveform generation.

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The authors would like to thank Dr. Raymond G Beausoleil, Dr. Muping Song, Jeng-Yuan Yang, and Yunchu Li for helpful discussions. This work was sponsored by HP Laboratories and the DARPA SPAWAR program (San Diego) with contract number N66001-08-1-2058.

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Zhang, L., Willner, A.E. (2010). Microresonators for Communication and Signal Processing Applications. In: Chremmos, I., Schwelb, O., Uzunoglu, N. (eds) Photonic Microresonator Research and Applications. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 156. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1744-7_19

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