| Zheng Chuan-tao,Cao Tian-shu,Wang Rui,Liang Lei,Ma Chunsheng,Cui Zhan-chen,Zhang Da-ming.A novel polymer-on-silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer optical filter and the performance analysis based on spectrum-periodized theory[J].Optoelectronics Letters,2012,8(3):168-171 |
| A novel polymer-on-silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer optical filter and the performance analysis based on spectrum-periodized theory |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Zheng Chuan-tao | Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India | | Cao Tian-shu | Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India | | Wang Rui | Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India | | Liang Lei | Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India | | Ma Chunsheng | Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India | | Cui Zhan-chen | Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India | | Zhang Da-ming | Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India |
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| Abstract: |
| The analysis on the traditional asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer (AMZI) optical filter based on two 3 dB directional
couplers (DCs) shows that by adding an additional nonlinear phase generated by phase-generating coupler (PGC) to the original
phase difference of the AMZI, its non-periodic frequency response can be modified, and a strictly periodic spectrum can be
obtained. A novel structure of the AMZI filter using two PGCs before and after the AMZI region is proposed. With the needed
free spectrum range (FSR) of 20 nm, the design and optimization of the device are performed using polymer SU-8 as the core
and PMMA-GMA as the buffer. Though the insertion loss (IL) gets larger than that of the traditional AMZI filter, the FSR is
nearly uniform as the expected period of 20 nm. |
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| This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.61107021, 61177027, 61077041 and 60807029), the
Ministry of Education of China (Nos.20110061120052 and 20090061110041), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project (No.
20110491299), and the Special Funds of Basic Science and Technology of Jilin University (Nos.201103076 and 200905005). |
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