On-chip ultra-high rejection and narrow bandwidth filter based on coherency-broken cascaded cladding-modulated gratings

Jinzhao Wang; Ting Li; Yang Feng; Jiewen Li; Wanxin Li; Luwei Ding; Yong Yao; Jianan Duan; Wei Liu; Feng He; Yi Zou; Xiaochuan Xu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.510899

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 5, 979(2024)

On-chip ultra-high rejection and narrow bandwidth filter based on coherency-broken cascaded cladding-modulated gratings

Jinzhao Wang¹, Ting Li², Yang Feng¹, Jiewen Li¹, Wanxin Li¹, Luwei Ding¹, Yong Yao¹, Jianan Duan¹, Wei Liu¹, Feng He¹, Yi Zou^2,3, and Xiaochuan Xu^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Integrated Photonic-Electronic Chip, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Aerospace Communication and Networking Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518055, China

²School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China

³e-mail: zouyi@shanghaitech.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Silicon Photonics

Received: Nov. 3, 2023

Accepted: Mar. 8, 2024

Published Online: May. 6, 2024

The Author Email: Xiaochuan Xu (xuxiaochuan@hit.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.510899

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