Optics and Precision Engineering, Volume. 28, Issue 1, 1(2020)
Reconfigurable optical filter based on self-couple ring resonator assisted MZI structure
The fast tunability and reconfigurability are essential for a silicon photonic filter for various application scenarios, such as an optical filter, time delay, and wavelength division multiplexing.In this work, we propose a reconfigurable filter based on a self-coupled micro-ring resonator combined with three optical switches. By controlling the electrodes, the proposed component can be reconfigured into five different structures, including the optical switch, non-balanced Mach-Zehnder Interferometer(MZI) filter, dual-ring-coupled MZI filter, micro-ring resonator filter with a double injection, and a self-coupled micro-ring resonator assisted MZI filter.Simulations have been performed based on the transmission matrix of the proposed filter. Based on the simulation results, the reconfigured dual-ring-coupled MZI filter has the capability of switching from a notch filter to a bandpass filter with an extinction ratio larger than 35 dB. The micro-ring resonator filter with double injection can be switched between two different FSRs, and the frequency tuning range is approximately 18 GHz. Compared tonumerous integrated single-function optical filters, the proposed structure has much higher flexibility and reconfigurability, and has the potential to be applied in integrated optical signal processing and microwave photonic systems.
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ZHENG Peng-fei, YUN Bin-feng. Reconfigurable optical filter based on self-couple ring resonator assisted MZI structure[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2020, 28(1): 1
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Received: Sep. 17, 2019
Accepted: --
Published Online: Mar. 25, 2020
The Author Email: Peng-fei ZHENG (pfzheng@seu.edu.cn)