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Design of Silicon Photonic microring resonators with complex waveguide cross-sections and minimal non-linearity

Optics 2025-10-01 v1 Applied Physics

Abstract

We present a model and a rigorous method to calculate the transmission coefficient of silicon micro-rings with complex waveguide cross-section including non-linear effects and self-heating, with very short simulation times. The method is applied to the design of MRRs in the SISCAP platform with high Q and reduced non-linearity, namely due to two photon absorption and free carrier absorption. We demonstrate that the free carrier diffusion in rib waveguides and Shockely-Read-Hall recombination play a fundamental role in reducing the impact of non-linearities in the ring.

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@article{arxiv.2506.22077,
  title  = {Design of Silicon Photonic microring resonators with complex waveguide cross-sections and minimal non-linearity},
  author = {Stefania Cucco and Marco Novarese and Sebastian Romero Garcia and Jock Bovington and Mariangela Gioannini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22077},
  year   = {2025}
}