PhotoniX, Volume. 3, Issue 1, 12(2022)

Tunable narrow-band single-channel add-drop integrated optical filter with ultrawide FSR

Chunlei Sun1,2、†, Yuexin Yin1,3、†, Zequn Chen1,2, Yuting Ye1,2, Ye Luo1,2, Hui Ma4,5, Lichun Wang4,5, Maoliang Wei4,5, Jialing Jian1,2, Renjie Tang1,2, Hao Dai4,5, Jianghong Wu1,2, Junying Li4,5, Daming Zhang3, Hongtao Lin4,5, and Lan Li1,2、*
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  • 1Key Laboratory of 3D Micro/Nano Fabrication and Characterization of Zhejiang Province, School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, China
  • 2Institute of Advanced Technology, Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou 310024, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China
  • 4Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Electronics and Smart System of Zhejiang Province, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  • 5School of Microelectronics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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    Free-spectral-range (FSR)-free optical filters have always been a critical challenge for photonic integrated circuits. A high-performance FSR-free filter is highly desired for communication, spectroscopy, and sensing applications. Despite significant progress in integrated optical filters, the FSR-free filter with a tunable narrow-band, high out-of-band rejection, and large fabrication tolerance has rarely been demonstrated. In this paper, we propose an exact and robust design method for add-drop filters (ADFs) with an FSR-free operation capability, a sub-nanometer optical bandwidth, and a high out-of-band rejection (OBR) ratio. The achieved filter has a 3-dB bandwidth of < 0.5 nm and an OBR ratio of 21.5 dB within a large waveband of 220 nm, which to the best of our knowledge, is the largest-FSR ADF demonstrated on a silicon photonic platform. The filter exhibits large tunability of 12.3 nm with a heating efficiency of 97 pm/mW and maintains the FSR-free feature in the whole tuning process. In addition, we fabricated a series of ADFs with different periods, which all showed reliable and excellent performances.

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    Chunlei Sun, Yuexin Yin, Zequn Chen, Yuting Ye, Ye Luo, Hui Ma, Lichun Wang, Maoliang Wei, Jialing Jian, Renjie Tang, Hao Dai, Jianghong Wu, Junying Li, Daming Zhang, Hongtao Lin, Lan Li. Tunable narrow-band single-channel add-drop integrated optical filter with ultrawide FSR[J]. PhotoniX, 2022, 3(1): 12

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Dec. 21, 2021

    Accepted: Apr. 2, 2022

    Published Online: Jul. 10, 2023

    The Author Email: Lan Li (lilan@westlake.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1186/s43074-022-00056-2

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