Title :
Fully reconfigurable compact RF photonic filters using high-Q silicon microdisk resonators
Author :
Alipour, Payam ; Eftekhar, Ali Asghar ; Atabaki, Amir Hossein ; Li, Qing ; Yegnanarayanan, Siva ; Madsen, Christi K. ; Adibi, Ali
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
We present a fully reconfigurable fourth-order SOI RF-photonic filter with a tunable bandwidth of 0.9-5 GHz, FSR >; 600 GHz, out-of-band rejection >; 38 dB, and compact size (0.15 mm2) using high-Q resonator-based components.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; elemental semiconductors; integrated optoelectronics; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; microwave photonics; optical filters; optical resonators; silicon; silicon-on-insulator; CMOS-compatible silicon-on-insulator platform; Si; bandwidth 0.9 GHz to 5 GHz; fully reconfigurable fourth-order SOI RF-photonic filter; high-Q resonator-based components; high-Q silicon microdisk resonators; out-of-band rejection; Band pass filters; IIR filters; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Resonator filters;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
