An integrated high-order phase-shifted Bragg grating, comprising six quarter-wave sections between Bragg grating mirrors in a laterally-corrugated strip waveguide has been realized in silicon-on-insulator technology. A box-like transmission window is created within the 10-nm-wide grating reflection band, realizing a sharp bandpass optical filter with out-of-band rejection exceeding 40 dB and a steep roll-off of ~300 dB/nm in the transition band. The sharp optical filter has been experimentally tested in microwave photonics (MWP) signal processing applications, namely spectral separation of an optical sideband comprising 1.25 Gb/s data from a 15-GHz-spaced carrier, and sideband suppression for dispersion compensation in a radio-over-fiber link. The results of the characterizations indicate negligible power penalty in terms of bit-error rate for the sideband separation and robust mitigation of dispersion-induced transmission impairment. The device has an ultrasmall footprint of~450×0.5 μm2, and can bemonolithically integrated with germanium photodiodes or silicon modulators as well as other passive subsystems to implement advanced on-chip MWP signal processing functionalities.

Integrated SOI high-order phase-shifted bragg grating for microwave photonics signal processing

Porzi, Claudio
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SERAFINO, GIOVANNI;VELHA, PHILIPPE;Ghelfi, Paolo;Bogoni, Antonella
2017-01-01

Abstract

An integrated high-order phase-shifted Bragg grating, comprising six quarter-wave sections between Bragg grating mirrors in a laterally-corrugated strip waveguide has been realized in silicon-on-insulator technology. A box-like transmission window is created within the 10-nm-wide grating reflection band, realizing a sharp bandpass optical filter with out-of-band rejection exceeding 40 dB and a steep roll-off of ~300 dB/nm in the transition band. The sharp optical filter has been experimentally tested in microwave photonics (MWP) signal processing applications, namely spectral separation of an optical sideband comprising 1.25 Gb/s data from a 15-GHz-spaced carrier, and sideband suppression for dispersion compensation in a radio-over-fiber link. The results of the characterizations indicate negligible power penalty in terms of bit-error rate for the sideband separation and robust mitigation of dispersion-induced transmission impairment. The device has an ultrasmall footprint of~450×0.5 μm2, and can bemonolithically integrated with germanium photodiodes or silicon modulators as well as other passive subsystems to implement advanced on-chip MWP signal processing functionalities.
2017
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