%0 Generic %A Sorel, Marc %A Strain, Michael J. %A Yu, Siyuan %A Cai, Xinlun %D 2015 %F enlighten:120638 %P 1-3 %R 10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341974 %T Photonic Integrated Devices for Exploiting the Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of Light in Optical Communications %U https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/120638/ %X We discuss the development of silicon photonic microring resonators for the emission of optical vortex beams. These devices offer great potential for high capacity short-reach optical interconnects thanks to their compactness, low power consumption and fast reconfigurability.