• DocumentCode
    1761987
  • Title

    Discretely tunable optical delay lines using serial and step-chirped sidewall Bragg gratings in SOI

  • Author

    Spasojevic, Mina ; Chen, Lawrence R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    April 25 2013
  • Firstpage
    608
  • Lastpage
    610
  • Abstract
    Discretely tunable optical delay lines using serial and step-chirped sidewall Bragg gratings in SOI are demonstrated. Delays of up to 60 ps (28 ps) in steps of 20 ps (14 ps) spanning bandwidths of 53 nm (33 nm) are obtained for serial (step-chirped) gratings.
  • Keywords
    Bragg gratings; optical delay lines; silicon-on-insulator; SOI; discretely tunable optical delay lines; serial chirped sidewall Bragg gratings; serial gratings; step-chirped sidewall Bragg gratings; time 14 ps; time 20 ps;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2013.0840
  • Filename
    6528121