Compact Microracetrack Resonator Devices Based on Small SU-8 Polymer Strip Waveguides

• Compact microracetrack resonator (MRR) devices are presented with small SU-8 polymer strip waveguides. The SU-8 strip waveguide has an SU-8 polymer core (n similar to 1.573), a SiO2 buffer (n similar to 1.445), and an air cladding. The fabricate straight waveguide has a low propagation loss of about 0.1. dB/mm. With such a high index-contrast optical waveguide, a compact MRR with a small bending radius (similar to 150 mu m) are designed and fabricated. The measured spectral responses of the through/drop ports show a Q-factor of 8000.

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Bending

resonator

strip

SU-8

waveguide

microring resonators

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