Electro-optically tunable optical delay on a lithium niobate photonic chip

Abstract

An approach for continuous tuning of on-chip optical delay with a microring resonator is proposed and demonstrated. By introducing an electro-optically tunable waveguide coupler, the bus waveguide to the resonance coupling can be effectively tuned from the under-coupling regime to the over-coupling regime. The optical delay is experimentally characterized by measuring the relative phase shift between lasers and shows a large dynamic range of delay from −600 to 600 ps and an efficient tuning of delay from −430 to −180 ps and from 40 to 240 ps by only a 5 V voltage.