Active on-chip dispersion control using a tunable silicon Bragg grating

C Klitis, M Sorel, MJ Strain - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Actively controllable dispersion in on-chip photonic devices is challenging to implement
compared with free space optical components where mechanical degrees of freedom can …

Large, scalable dispersion engineering using cladding-modulated Bragg gratings on a silicon chip

E Sahin, KJA Ooi, CE Png, DTH Tan - Applied Physics Letters, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
A cladding-modulated 1D photonic crystal is realized for creating ultra-large dispersion on a
silicon chip. Both normal dispersion and anomalous dispersion are realized on the same …

Thermally chirped contra-directional couplers for residueless, bandwidth-tunable Bragg filters with fabrication error compensation

J Cauchon, J St-Yves, W Shi - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Bandwidth-tunable filters are essential in elastic optical networks for dynamic bandwidth
allocation. Existing solutions in silicon photonics face challenges to meet requirements in …

Slow-light, band-edge waveguides for tunable time delays

M Povinelli, S Johnson, J Joannopoulos - Optics Express, 2005 - opg.optica.org
We propose the use of slow-light, band-edge waveguides for compact, integrated, tunable
optical time delays. We show that slow group velocities at the photonic band edge give rise …

Photonic-chip-based tunable slow and fast light via stimulated Brillouin scattering

R Pant, A Byrnes, CG Poulton, E Li, DY Choi… - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We report the first (to our knowledge) demonstration of photonic chip based tunable slow
and fast light via stimulated Brillouin scattering. Slow, fast, and negative group velocities …

Silicon photonics for microwave photonics applications

LR Chen - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We provide an overview of recent work on developing integrated microwave photonic
subsystems in silicon photonics for generating chirped microwave waveforms as well as for …

Tunable nanophotonic delay lines using linearly chirped contradirectional couplers with uniform Bragg gratings

W Shi, V Veerasubramanian, D Patel, DV Plant - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an integrated tunable optical delay line in grating-assisted contradirectional
couplers using a CMOS-compatible photonic technology. The input signal is delayed …

All-optical slow-light on a photonic chip

Y Okawachi, M Foster, J Sharping, A Gaeta, Q Xu… - Optics …, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate optically tunable delays in a silicon-on-insulator planar waveguide based
on slow light induced by stimulated Raman scattering (SRS). Inside an 8-mm-long …

Nearly arbitrary on-chip optical filters for ultrafast pulse shaping

IW Frank, Y Zhang, M Loncar - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a reverse design method for realizing a broad range of optical filters based
on integrated optical waveguides and experimentally verify example designs on a CMOS …

On-chip digitally tunable positive/negative dispersion controller using bidirectional chirped multimode waveguide gratings

S Liu, R Ma, Z Yu, Y Shi, D Dai - Advanced Photonics, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A silicon-based digitally tunable positive/negative dispersion controller (DC) is proposed
and realized for the first time using the cascaded bidirectional chirped multimode waveguide …