Tunable optical filter using second-order micro-ring resonator

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/26/2/024209

Abstract In this paper, we design and fabricate a silicon integrated optical filter consisting of two cascaded micro-ring resonators and two straight waveguides. Two micro-heaters are fabricated on the top of two micro-rings respectively, which are employed to modulate the micro-rings to perform the function of a tunable optical filter by the thermo-optic effect. The static response test indicates that the extinction ratio and 3-dB bandwidth are 29.01 dB and 0.21 nm respectively, the dynamic response test indicates that the 10%-90% rise and 90%-10% fall time of the filter are 16 μs and 12 μs, respectively, which can meet the requirements of optical communication and information processing. Finally, the power consumption of the device is also characterized, and the total power consumption is about 9.43 mW/nm, which has been improved efficiently.

Keywords: integrated optics wavelength filtering devices resonators photonic integrated circuits

Received: 17 June 2016
Revised: 09 October 2016
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PACS:	42.79.Ci	(Filters, zone plates, and polarizers)
	42.82.-m	(Integrated optics)
	42.60.Da	(Resonators, cavities, amplifiers, arrays, and rings)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61405082) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

Corresponding Authors: Yonghui Tian
E-mail: tianyh@lzu.edu.cn

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Lin Deng(邓林), Dezhao Li(李德钊), Zilong Liu(刘子龙), Yinghao Meng(孟英昊), Xiaonan Guo(郭小男), Yonghui Tian(田永辉) Tunable optical filter using second-order micro-ring resonator 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 024209

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