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On-chip photonic microsystem for optical signal processing based on silicon and silicon nitride platforms

  • Yu Li , Jiachen Li , Hongchen Yu , Hai Yu , Hongwei Chen , Sigang Yang and Minghua Chen EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: January 18, 2018
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Advanced Optical Technologies
From the journal Advanced Optical Technologies Volume 7 Issue 1-2

Abstract

The explosive growth of data centers, cloud computing and various smart devices is limited by the current state of microelectronics, both in terms of speed and heat generation. Benefiting from the large bandwidth, promising low power consumption and passive calculation capability, experts believe that the integrated photonics-based signal processing and transmission technologies can break the bottleneck of microelectronics technology. In recent years, integrated photonics has become increasingly reliable and access to the advanced fabrication process has been offered by various foundries. In this paper, we review our recent works on the integrated optical signal processing system. We study three different kinds of on-chip signal processors and use these devices to build microsystems for the fields of microwave photonics, optical communications and spectrum sensing. The microwave photonics front receiver was demonstrated with a signal processing range of a full-band (L-band to W-band). A fully integrated microwave photonics transceiver without the on-chip laser was realized on silicon photonics covering the signal frequency of up 10 GHz. An all-optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) de-multiplier was also demonstrated and used for an OFDM communication system with the rate of 64 Gbps. Finally, we show our work on the monolithic integrated spectrometer with a high resolution of about 20 pm at the central wavelength of 1550 nm. These proposed on-chip signal processing systems potential applications in the fields of radar, 5G wireless communication, wearable devices and optical access networks.

Keywords: integrated optics; microwave photonics; OFDM communications; optical signal processing; spectrometer

Acknowledgments

The authors would thank LioniX BV for offering the TriPleX™ waveguide technology, and the IMEC and LETI for offering the SOI waveguide technology. Our works are partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Contract no. 61771285 and 61335002, Funder Id: 10.13039/501100001809.

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Received: 2017-9-5
Accepted: 2017-11-30
Published Online: 2018-1-18
Published in Print: 2018-4-25

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https://doi.org/10.1515/aot-2017-0057
Keywords for this article
integrated optics; microwave photonics; OFDM communications; optical signal processing; spectrometer

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Cover and Frontmatter
  2. Editorial
  3. Reviewer recognition and editor’s note
  4. Community
  5. News
  6. Topical Issue: Optical Coatings
  7. Editorial
  8. Special issue on optical coatings
  9. Review Article
  10. Simulation of the optical coating deposition
  11. Research Articles
  12. ALD anti-reflection coatings at 1ω, 2ω, 3ω, and 4ω for high-power ns-laser application
  13. Determination of refractive index and thickness of YbF3 thin films deposited at different bias voltages of APS ion source from spectrophotometric methods
  14. Effects of fixture rotation on coating uniformity for high-performance optical filter fabrication
  15. Design and manufacture of super-multilayer optical filters based on PARMS technology
  16. Tutorial
  17. Monolithic photonic integration for visible and short near-infrared wavelengths: technologies and platforms for bio and life science applications
  18. Review Articles
  19. Optimization of freeform surfaces using intelligent deformation techniques for LED applications
  20. On-chip photonic microsystem for optical signal processing based on silicon and silicon nitride platforms
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  22. On-chip Mach-Zehnder interferometer for OCT systems
  23. Research Article
  24. Broadband and scalable optical coupling for silicon photonics using polymer waveguides
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