Ultra-compact silicon WDM optical filters with flat - top response for on-chip optical interconnects

Fengnian Xia, Mike Rooks, Lidija Sekaric, Yurii Vlasov
2007 2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)  
Ultra-compact flat-top optical filters using cascaded micro-rings based on submicron silicon photonic wires are reported. 300GHz-wide passband with a flat-top response with over 30dB out-of-band rejection are realized with a device footprint below 0.0007mm 2 .
doi:10.1109/cleo.2007.4452983 fatcat:io52agplf5c3diluk7d6pxc5l4