Title :
Tunable grating Fabry-Perot-based wavelength add/drop multiplexer in silicon photonics
Author :
Yeh, Anthony M. ; Wu, Ming C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
We report a silicon photonic tunable add/drop multiplexer based on thermally tuned grating Fabry-Perot etalons embedded in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. A filter bandwidth of 100GHz is achieved within a broad 60nm wide stopband.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot interferometers; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; diffraction gratings; elemental semiconductors; multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical filters; optical tuning; silicon; Fabry-Perot etalons; Fabry-Perot wavelength add/drop multiplexer; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Si; bandwidth 100 GHz; filter bandwidth; silicon photonics; thermally tuned grating; Cavity resonators; Fabry-Perot; Gratings; Heating; Passband; Photonics; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656625