Fully reconfigurable silicon CMOS photonic lattice filters

Author

Fontaine, Nicolas K. ; Ibrahim, Salah ; Djordjevic, Stevan ; Guan, Binbin ; Su, Tiehui ; Cheung, Stanley ; Yu, Runxiang ; Scott, Ryan P. ; Pomerene, Andrew T. ; Gunter, Liberty ; Danziger, Steve ; Ding, Zhi ; Okamoto, K. ; Yoo, S.J.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

19-23 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We present reconfigurable CMOS-compatible silicon-photonic lattice-filters consisting of Mach-Zehnder structures and ring resonators configured as high resolution bandpass and notch filter shapes. Arbitrary filter synthesis and CMOS-compatible fabrication process are also discussed.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; band-pass filters; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; lattice filters; notch filters; optical lattices; optical resonators; silicon; CMOS-compatible fabrication process; Mach-Zehnder structures; filter synthesis; high resolution bandpass filter; notch filter shapes; reconfigurable CMOS-compatible silicon-photonic lattice-filters; ring resonators; Band pass filters; Couplers; Finite impulse response filter; IIR filters; Optical filters; Optical waveguides; Poles and zeros;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on

Conference_Location

Torino

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8536-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8534-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621287

Filename

5621287