T-shaped silicon waveguide coupled with a micro-ring resonator-based Fano resonance modulator

Abstract

Fano resonance has an asymmetric and sharp resonance peak near the resonance wavelength, enhancing optical modulation performance. Here, a Fano resonant silicon optical modulator with a micro-ring resonator (MRR) coupled with a T-shaped waveguide is designed. Compared with an MRR modulator, a Fano resonance-based modulator has a smaller wavelength range of changes in optical intensity (from 0 a.u. to 1 a.u.). Under the condition of achieving the same light intensity change, Fano resonance only needs to shift the wavelength by 0.07 times compared with MRR. By optimizing the doping section and the Fano resonance line shape, the modulation depth of the Fano modulator is 12.44 dB, and an insertion loss of 0.41 dB is obtained. Moreover, it improves the modulation linearity. This modulator provides a new idea, to the best of our knowledge, for the single-cavity Fano resonance modulator.