Reconfigurable multi-channel second-order silicon microring-resonator filterbanks for on-chip WDM systems

Author

Dahlem, M.S. ; Holzwarth, C.W. ; Khilo, A. ; Kärtner, F.X. ; Smith, H.I. ; Ippen, E.P.

Author_Institution

Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

14-16 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report a precisely tuned and reconfigurable wide-band twenty-channel second-order dual filterbank, with tunable channel spacing and 20 GHz single-channel bandwidth, fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform. The crosstalk between channels is <;35 dB, and the thermo-optic tuning efficiency is about 28 μW/GHz/ring. This filterbank is suitable for on-chip wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) applications, and has the largest-to-date reported number of channels built on an SOI platform.

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical communication; optical crosstalk; optical fibre fabrication; optical filters; optical tuning; silicon; silicon-on-insulator; wavelength division multiplexing; Si; crosstalk; frequency 20 GHz; microring-resonator; on-chip WDM systems; reconfigurable filterbank; second-order dual filterbank; second-order silicon; silicon-on-insulator; thermo-optic tuning; tunable channel spacing; wavelength division multiplexing; wideband filterbank; Bandwidth; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Resonator filters; Silicon; Tuning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics Global Conference (PGC), 2010

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9882-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PGC.2010.5706063

Filename

5706063