Two-Dimensional Elliptical Microresonator Arrays for Wide Flat Bandwidth and Boxlike Filter Response

Based on two-dimensional elliptical microresonator arrays, we designed and fabricated a compact filter on the silicon-on-insulator platform with potential applications for on-chip optical interconnects. The fabricated optical filter exhibits a wide flat bandwidth of 951 GHz with the shape factor of...

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Main Authors: Huan Guan, Xingrui Huang, Donghe Tu, Hang Yu, Yuxiang Yin, Zhiguo Yu, Zhiyong Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-10-01
Series:Photonics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6732/9/11/814
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Summary:Based on two-dimensional elliptical microresonator arrays, we designed and fabricated a compact filter on the silicon-on-insulator platform with potential applications for on-chip optical interconnects. The fabricated optical filter exhibits a wide flat bandwidth of 951 GHz with the shape factor of 0.57 at the through port for the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>×</mo><mn>20</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> arrays. The out-of-band rejection is as high as 50 dB. The crosstalk is also very low (−46 dB). The spectral shows a boxlike response. Although there are sixty rings used in the array, the insertion loss is still very small (≤1.36 dB).
ISSN:2304-6732