Silicon photonic microelectromechanical systems add-drop ring resonator in a foundry processShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: JOURNAL OF OPTICAL MICROSYSTEMS, ISSN 2708-5260, Vol. 2, no 04Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Photonic add-drop filters are crucial components for the implementation of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) in fiber-optic communication systems. The recent progress in photonic integration has shown the potential to integrate photonic add-drop filters alongside high-performance photonic building blocks on a chip to construct compact and complex photonic-integrated circuits for WDM. Typically, implementations are based on micro-ring resonators with integrated heaters or free carrier dispersion-based modulators to adjust the filter wavelength. However, heaters suffer from high power consumption, and free carriers result in optical absorption losses, limiting the scalability toward very-large-scale circuits. We demonstrate the design, simulation, fabrication, and experimental characterization of a compact add-drop filter based on a vertically movable, MEMS-actuated ring resonator. The MEMSactuated add-drop filter is implemented in IMEC's iSiPP50G silicon photonics platform and realized using a short post-processing flow to safely release the suspended MEMS structures in a wafer-level compatible process. The filter exhibits a through port linewidth of similar to 1 nm (124.37 GHz) at 1557.1 nm, and it retains a port extinction of 20 dB and a port isolation of > 50 dB under 27 V of actuation voltage. The combination of low-power consumption and a compact footprint demonstrates the suitability for very-large-scale integration in photonic circuits.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng , 2022. Vol. 2, no 04
Keywords [en]
integrated optics, silicon photonics, microelectromechanical systems, add-drop filter, wavelength division multiplexing, actuation
National Category
Telecommunications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-323914DOI: 10.1117/1.JOM.2.4.044001ISI: 000908435100003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85183871353OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-323914DiVA, id: diva2:1739687
Note
QC 20230227
2023-02-272023-02-272024-07-11Bibliographically approved