Novel spectral-shaping building block: a narrowband Mach–Zehnder interferometer

Abstract

We present an experimental demonstration of notch filters with arbitrary center wavelengths capable of tunable analog output power values varying between full extinction of 15 and 0 dB. Each filter is composed of highly modular apodized four-port Bragg add/drop filters to reduce the crosstalk between concatenated devices. The constructed photonic integrated circuit experimentally demonstrates spectra shaping using four independent notch filters. Each notch filter supports a bandwidth of ∼ 2 nm and is shown to be suitable for realization of programmable photonic integrated circuits.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2020
Source ID
10.1364/prj.391128

Entities

People

  • Ang Li
  • Jordan Davis
  • Naif Alshamrani
  • Yeshaiahu Fainman

Organizations

  • ARPA-E
  • ASML (United States)
  • Army Research Office
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • National Science Foundation
  • Office of Naval Research
  • Semiconductor Research Corporation

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Fields of Study

  • Physics

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