Widely tunable silicon-on-insulator ring resonators with a liquid crystal cladding

Wout De Cort, Jeroen Beeckman, Tom Claes, Kristiaan Neyts, Roel Baets
2011 IEEE Photonic Society 24th Annual Meeting  
Silicon-On-Insulator ring resonators can be widely tuned with a cladding layer of Liquid Crystals. Reorientation of the director with an electric field results in a tuning range of more than 30nm.
doi:10.1109/pho.2011.6110661 fatcat:udnef3jyindepgblfqbbqvfyni