Abstract
We present a 10-GHz granularity reconfigurable WDM superchannel filter in a photonic integrated circuit. The filter uses a ring-resonator-assisted tapped-delay-line topology. An example configuration with two ring resonators and four tapped delay lines provides a spectral filter with a flat-top passband, a roll-off factor of 8%, a tunable central wavelength, and a selectable free spectral range, i.e. 2° or 4° the 3-dB passband bandwidth. The device was fabricated in a silicon nitride (Si3N4/SiO2) waveguide with a chip area of 0.36 cm2 and has a fiber-to-fiber insertion loss of 5 dB. We experimentally demonstrate the filter for selecting a subchannel from a WDM superchannel comprising 10-GHz subchannels with 10% and zero guard bands. Owing to the infinite impulse responses of ring resonators, this filter requires a significantly smaller area and fewer tuning elements compared with designs based on only tapped-delay-line finite-impulse-response filters. This work contributes to the creation of chip-scale all-optical WDM superchannel transceivers and reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2619-2626 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Journal of Lightwave Technology |
Volume | 36 |
Issue number | 13 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 13 Jul 2018 |
Keywords
- fast Fourier transform
- fiber communications
- Nyquist filter
- optical signal processing
- photonic integrated circuit
- transceiver
- waveguide device
- WDM