Astrophotonic spectrographs

P Gatkine, S Veilleux, M Dagenais - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Astrophotonics is the application of photonic technologies to channel, manipulate, and
disperse light from one or more telescopes to achieve scientific objectives in astronomy in …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-compact lithium niobate photonic chip for high-capacity and energy-efficient wavelength-division-multiplexing transmitters

H Liu, B Pan, Y Huang, J He, M Zhang, Z Yu… - Light: Advanced …, 2023 - light-am.com
Recently, high-performance thin-film lithium niobate optical modulators have emerged that,
together with advanced multiplexing technologies, are highly expected to satisfy the ever …

Tunable ultranarrowband grating filters in thin-film lithium niobate

A Prencipe, MA Baghban, K Gallo - ACS Photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Several applications in modern photonics require compact on-chip optical filters with a
tailored spectral response. However, achieving subnanometric bandwidths and high …

Potential of commercial SiN MPW platforms for developing mid/high-resolution integrated photonic spectrographs for astronomy

P Gatkine, N Jovanovic, C Hopgood, S Ellis… - Applied Optics, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Integrated photonic spectrographs offer an avenue to extreme miniaturization of
astronomical instruments, which would greatly benefit extremely large telescopes and future …

Add–drop filter with complex waveguide Bragg grating and multimode interferometer operating on arbitrarily spaced channels

S Xie, J Zhan, Y Hu, Y Zhang, S Veilleux… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We present a silicon nitride/silicon dioxide add–drop filter operating on arbitrarily spaced
channels using multimode interferometers (MMIs) and complex waveguide Bragg gratings …

On-chip Fabry–Pérot Bragg grating cavity enhanced four-wave mixing

S Xie, Y Zhang, Y Hu, S Veilleux, M Dagenais - ACS Photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Optical microcavity based four-wave mixing (FWM) and its various applications, such as
entangled photon pair generation, have been intensively studied in the past few years …

Arrayed waveguide grating with reusable delay lines (RDL-AWG) for high resolving power, highly compact, photonic spectrographs

Y Zhang, J Zhan, S Veilleux… - 2022 IEEE Photonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Arrayed waveguide gratings with reusable delay lines (RDL-AWGs) are demonstrated as
high resolving power integrated photonic spectrometers. One of the devices is 71 times …

Broadband 2× 2 multimode-interference coupler on the silicon-nitride platform

X Ai, Y Zhang, WL Hsu, S Veilleux, M Dagenais - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we present the design, optimization, and implementation of a sub-wavelength
grating (SWG) multi-mode interference coupler (MMI) on the silicon nitride photonic …

On-chip high extinction ratio single-stage Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on multimode interferometer

S Xie, S Veilleux, M Dagenais - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
On-chip high extinction ratio Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZI) have always attracted
interest from researchers as it can be used in many applications including astrophotonics …

Side-coupled Fabry-Perot resonator filter based on dual-waveguide Bragg grating

Y Zhao, Y Shi, P Dai, S Liu, L Hao… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose, analyze and demonstrate a side-coupled Fabry-Perot (FP) resonator filter
composed of two dissimilar waveguides with π phase-shifted Bragg grating. The resonance …