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
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;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2013.0840
