“…However, with the ever-increasing demand of integration and miniaturization, the need for smaller and compact optical components also increases. Various efforts have been undertaken to realize DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202000556 compact spectrometers in different device configurations such as grating spectrometers, [5,6] array-waveguide gratings, [7,8] photonic-crystal based spectrometers, [9,10] superprism-based spectrometers, [11] and microring-based spectrometers. [12] In many of the aforementioned configurations, the spectral resolution is highly dependent on the angular distribution and effective optical path travelled by the light, requiring relatively large footprint devices to achieve a high-resolution spectrometer.…”