We propose and experimentally demonstrate a continuously tunable all-optical microwave filter using a silicon opto-mechanical microring resonator (MRR). By finely adjusting the pump light with submilliwatt power level, transmission spectrum of the MRR could be continuously shifted based on the nonlinear effects, including the opto-mechanical effect and thermo-optic effect. Therefore, in the case of optical single sideband (OSSB) modulation, the frequency intervals between the optical carrier (near one MRR resonance) and the corresponding resonance could be flexibly manipulated, which is the critical factor to achieve continuously tunable microwave photonic filter (MPF). In the experiment, the central frequency of the MPF could be continuously tuned from 6 GHz to 19 GHz with the pump power lower than -2.5 dBm. The proposed opto-mechanical device is competent to process microwave signals with dominant advantages, such as compact footprint, all-optical control and low power consumption. In the future, using light to control light, the opto-mechanical structure on silicon platforms might have many other potential applications in microwave systems, such as microwave switch.
Wideband dispersion-free slow light in chirped-slot photonic-crystal coupled waveguides is proposed and theoretically investigated in detail. By systematically analyzing the dependence of band shape on various structure parameters, unique inflection points in the key photonic band with approximate zero group velocity can be obtained in an optimized slot photonic-crystal coupled waveguide. By simply chirping the widths of the photonic-crystal waveguides in the optimized structure, wideband (up to 20 nm) slow-light with optical confinement in the low dielectric slot is demonstrated numerically with relative temporal pulse-width spreading well below 8% as obtained from two-dimensional finite-difference time-domain simulations. The wideband slow-light operation of the proposed structures would offer significant potential for novel compact high-speed optical-signal-processing devices in silicon-based systems.
This paper is devoted to the study of a polarization independent reflector made with a
multilayered configuration grating structure with a multi-subpart profile. Rigorous
coupled-wave analysis for multilayered grating structures is adopted to investigate the
properties of the reflector. It is shown that over a broadband spectrum of 1.57–1.8
µm, the reflector demonstrates high reflectivity (R > 99%) and a wide angular
bandwidth (about 21.2°) for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) polarized waves. Effects
of deviation from the design parameters on the performance of the reflector are also
presented, and a reasonable tolerance of fabrication error is exhibited in the proposed
device.
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