Compact chip-scale filter based on curved waveguide Bragg gratings
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Steve Zamek1, Dawn T H Tan, Mercedeh Khajavikhan
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego,9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0407, USA. szamek@ucsd.edu
Abstract:
We propose a method for miniaturization of filters based on curved waveguide Bragg gratings, so that long structures can be packed into a small area on a chip. This eliminates the stitching errors introduced in the fabrication process, which compromise the performance of long Bragg gratings. Our approach relies on cascading curved waveguide Bragg gratings with the same radius of curvature. An analytical model for the analysis of these devices was developed, and a filter based on this model was designed and fabricated in a silicon on insulator platform. The filter had a total length of 920μm, occupied an area of 190μm×114μm, and exhibited a stop band of 1.7nm at 1.55μm and an extinction ratio larger than 23dB.
