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    Low-power thermooptical tuning of SOI resonator switch
    (IEEE, 2006) Kiyat, I.; Aydınlı, Atilla; Dagli, N.
    A wavelength selective optical switch is developed based on a high-Q racetrack resonator making use of the large thermooptic coefficient of silicon. The racetrack resonator was fabricated using a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) single-mode rib waveguide. The resonator shows a high Q factor of 38 000 with spectral sidelobes of 11 dB down and can be thermooptically scanned over its full free-spectral range applying only 57 mW of electrical power. A low power of 17 mW is enough to tune the device from resonance to off-resonance state. The device functions as a wavelength selective optical switch with a 3-dB cutoff frequency of 210 kHz.