Self-pulsation and excitability mechanism in silicon-on-insulator microrings
Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Martin Fiers, Pauline Mechet, Thijs Spuesens, Rajesh Kumar, Geert Morthier, Kristof Vandoorne, Bendix Schneider, Benjamin Schrauwen, Joni Dambre, Peter Bienstman · Asia Communications and Photonics Conference · 2012
In this paper, we demonstrate excitability in a silicon-on-insulator microring. Neglecting the fast light dynamics simplifies the calculation of the excitability onset. Excitable microrings will be useful as a basic building block in all-optical neural networks.