Cascaded Mach-Zehnder wavelength filters in silicon photonics for low loss and flat pass-band WDM (de-) multiplexing

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作者
Horst, Folkert [1 ]
Green, William M. J. [2 ]
Assefa, Solomon [2 ]
Shank, Steven M. [3 ]
Vlasov, Yurii A. [2 ]
Offrein, Bert Jan [1 ]
机构
[1] IBM Res Zurich, CH-8803 Ruschlikon, Switzerland
[2] IBM Res TJ Watson Res Ctr, Yorktown Hts, NY 10598 USA
[3] IBM Syst & Technol Grp, Microelect Div, Essex Jct, VT 05452 USA
关键词
DEMULTIPLEXER;
D O I
10.1364/OE.21.011652
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We present 1-to-8 wavelength (de-) multiplexer devices based on a binary tree of cascaded Mach-Zehnder-like lattice filters, and manufactured using a 90 nm CMOS-integrated silicon photonics technology. We demonstrate that these devices combine a flat pass-band over more than 50% of the channel spacing with low insertion loss of less than 1.6 dB, and have a small device size of approximately 500 x 400 mu m. This makes this type of filters well suited for application as WDM (de-) multiplexer in silicon photonics transceivers for optical data communication in large scale computer systems. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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页码:11652 / 11658
页数:7
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