Novel CMOS-Compatible Athermal and Polarization-Insensitive Ring Resonator as Photonic Notch Filter

IEEE Photonics Journal

Francesco Dell'Olio¹  Mario N. Armenise¹  Donato Conteduca¹  Giuseppe Brunetti¹  Caterina Ciminelli¹ 

[1] Optoelectronics Laboratory, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy;

关键词: Integrated photonic systems;    waveguide devices;   

DOI  :  10.1109/JPHOT.2018.2877081

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

A hybrid titanium dioxide/silicon rich nitride ring resonator with the unique feature of being simultaneously athermal and polarization-insensitive is reported for the first time to our knowledge. Although its potential application domain is extremely wide, the designed integrated microphotonic cavity, having a racetrack shape, is intended for notch filtering in a microwave photonic passband filter. A careful selection of the CMOS-compatible material system and an innovative design approach have allowed a very low dependence of the filtering shape on the input beam polarization and, simultaneously, a thermal drift of the resonance wavelength <;1.5 pm/K. The numerically estimated Q-factor, free spectral range, and extinction ratio are compliant with the requirements of the selected application, being equal to 7.8 × 10⁴, 4 nm, and 30.7 dB, respectively.

【 授权许可】

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