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Fabrication and Characterization of High-Q Silicon Nitride Membrane Resonators
Published on: August 8, 2025
Tuning of silicon-on-insulator ring resonators with liquid crystal cladding using the longitudinal field component
Wout De Cort1, Jeroen Beeckman, Richard James
1Department of Information Technology, Photonics Research Group, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium. wout.decort@intec.ugent.be
Abstract:
We show tuning of the resonance wavelength of silicon-on-insulator microring resonators with liquid crystal cladding. The electro-optic effect of the liquid crystal causes a decrease in effective refractive index for the TE-polarized light in the waveguides. Tuning of the liquid crystal birefringence affects primarily the longitudinal component of the electric field. We achieve a tuning range of 0.6 nm. Through simulation and experiment we perform a thorough study of this phenomenon.
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