Milos Popovic, Design of Microring Resonators and Filters in Silicon Photonics Foundry Platforms
Channel: AIM Photonics Academy
Date: 12/04/2021

Design of Microring Resonators and Filters in Silicon Photonics Foundry Platforms Microring resonators are a foundational building block of next-generation photonic integrated circuits for high-density communication links, sensing, RF and mm-wave signal processing, and emerging quantum information applications. This course introduces fundamentals through state-of-the-art techniques of microring resonator device and photonic circuit design, and through hands-on design of a coupled-resonator bandpass filter. Learners will gain an understanding of (i) coupled-resonator circuits, (ii) filter synthesis, (iii) waveguide, bend, and resonator design, (iv) coupler design, (v) thermo-optic tuning, (vi) layered device-to-circuit level build-up of models of increasing accuracy, and (vii) scaling rules, rule-of-thumb intuition, and design for manufacturing, including implementation in a silicon photonics foundry platform.