Title :
Waveguide coupled drop filters on SOI using vertical sidewalled grating resonators
Author :
Veerasubramanian, Venkat ; Kirk, Andrew G. ; Beaudin, Guillaume ; Giguère, Alexandre ; LeDrogoff, Boris ; Aimez, Vincent
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
A vertical grating resonator coupled drop filter with 20 dB channel extinction and 37% dropped channel tapping efficiency is proposed. We also show that by employing coupled cavities a flat-top filter response can be obtained.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; integrated optics; optical filters; optical resonators; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; SOI; Si; channel extinction; coupled cavity; dropped channel tapping efficiency; flat-top filter response; vertical sidewalled grating resonators; waveguide coupled drop filters; coupled waveguide resonators; optical filters; silicon-on-insulator (SOI); vertical gratings;
Conference_Titel :
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5368-9
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5699047
