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Silicon ring resonator-coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometers for the Fano resonance in the mid-IR

Silicon ring resonator-coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometers for the Fano resonance in the mid-IR
Silicon ring resonator-coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometers for the Fano resonance in the mid-IR
We present ring resonator (RR)-coupled Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) based on silicon-on-insulator rib waveguides, operating around the mid-IR wavelength of 3.8 μm. A number of different photonic integrated devices have been designed and fabricated experimentally to obtain the asymmetric Fano resonances in the mid-IR. We have investigated the influence of the coupling efficiency between the RR and the MZI as well as the phase shift between the two arms of the MZI on the Fano-type resonance spectral features, in agreement with theoretical predictions. Finally, wavelength-dependent Fano transmittances have been successfully measured with insertion losses up to ∼1  dB and extinction ratios of ∼20  dB. A slope of sharp Fano resonances as high as −574.6/μm has been achieved and estimated to be 35.5% higher than the slope of single RR Lorentzian-type resonances.
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Passaro, Vittorio M.N.
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Troia, Benedetto, Soler Penadés, Jordi, Qu, Zhibo, Khokhar, Ali, Osman, Ahmed, Wu, Yangbo, Stirling, Callum, Nedeljković, Miloš, Passaro, Vittorio M.N. and Mashanovich, Goran Z. (2017) Silicon ring resonator-coupled Mach-Zehnder interferometers for the Fano resonance in the mid-IR. Applied Optics, 56 (31), 8769-8776. (doi:10.1364/AO.56.008769).

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We present ring resonator (RR)-coupled Mach–Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) based on silicon-on-insulator rib waveguides, operating around the mid-IR wavelength of 3.8 μm. A number of different photonic integrated devices have been designed and fabricated experimentally to obtain the asymmetric Fano resonances in the mid-IR. We have investigated the influence of the coupling efficiency between the RR and the MZI as well as the phase shift between the two arms of the MZI on the Fano-type resonance spectral features, in agreement with theoretical predictions. Finally, wavelength-dependent Fano transmittances have been successfully measured with insertion losses up to ∼1  dB and extinction ratios of ∼20  dB. A slope of sharp Fano resonances as high as −574.6/μm has been achieved and estimated to be 35.5% higher than the slope of single RR Lorentzian-type resonances.

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Accepted/In Press date: 4 October 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 31 October 2017
Published date: 1 November 2017

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Local EPrints ID: 416394
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/416394
ISSN: 0003-6935
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ORCID for Jordi Soler Penadés: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1706-8533
ORCID for Ahmed Osman: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6575-3861
ORCID for Miloš Nedeljković: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9170-7911
ORCID for Goran Z. Mashanovich: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2954-5138

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Date deposited: 15 Dec 2017 17:30
Last modified: 29 Oct 2024 02:45

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Author: Benedetto Troia
Author: Jordi Soler Penadés ORCID iD
Author: Zhibo Qu
Author: Ali Khokhar
Author: Ahmed Osman ORCID iD
Author: Yangbo Wu
Author: Callum Stirling
Author: Miloš Nedeljković ORCID iD
Author: Vittorio M.N. Passaro
Author: Goran Z. Mashanovich ORCID iD

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