On-chip digitally tunable positive/negative dispersion controller using bidirectional chirped multimode waveguide gratings

Shujun Liu; Ruitao Ma; Zejie Yu; Yaocheng Shi; Daoxin Dai

doi:10.1117/1.AP.5.6.066005

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 5, Issue 6, 066005(2023)

On-chip digitally tunable positive/negative dispersion controller using bidirectional chirped multimode waveguide gratings

Shujun Liu¹, Ruitao Ma¹, Zejie Yu^1,2,3, Yaocheng Shi^1,2,3,4, and Daoxin Dai^1,2,3,4、*

Author Affiliations

¹Zhejiang University, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Photonics, State Key Laboratory for Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Hangzhou, China

²Jiaxing Key Laboratory of Photonic Sensing and Intelligent Imaging, Jiaxing, China

³Zhejiang University, Jiaxing Research Institute, Intelligent Optics and Photonics Research Center, Jiaxing, China

⁴Zhejiang University, Ningbo Research Institute, Ningbo, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Aug. 10, 2023

Accepted: Oct. 26, 2023

Published Online: Dec. 4, 2023

The Author Email: Dai Daoxin (dxdai@zju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.5.6.066005

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