Microresonators for Communication and Signal Processing Applications

Abstract

Photonic microresonators exhibit a great potential for various advanced functions for communication and signal processing applications. In this chapter, we briefly review recent advances in achieving space-, power-, and spectrally efficient chip-scale optical devices and subsystems using microresonators. With an emphasis on signal integrity and system performance, we describe microresonator-based channel adding/dropping in time-division-multiplexing systems, signal generation and demodulation for advanced optical data formats, and frequency comb generation for arbitrary waveform generation.