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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 21, Issue 9, Pages 10903-10916Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.010903
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- DARPA POEM [W911NF-10-1-0412]
- University of Colorado Boulder/NIST Measurement Science and Engineering Fellowship
- University of Colorado College of Engineering
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We propose integrated photonic wavelength multiplexers based on serially cascaded channel add-drop filters with an asymmetric frequency response. By utilizing the through-port rejection of the previous channel to advantage, the asymmetric response provides optimal rejection of the adjacent channels at each wavelength channel. We show theoretically the basic requirements to realize an asymmetric filter response, and propose and evaluate the possible implementations using coupled resonators. For one implementation, we provide detailed design formulas based on a coupled-mode theory model, and more generally we provide broad guidelines that enumerate all structures that can provide asymmetric passbands in the context of a pole-zero design approach to engineering the device response. Using second-order microring resonator filter stages as an example, we show that the asymmetric multiplexer can provide 2.4 times higher channel packing (bandwidth) density than a multiplexer using the same order stages (number of resonators) using conventional all-pole maximally-flat designs. We also address the sensitivities and constraints of various implementations of our proposed approach, as it affects their applicability to CMOS photonic interconnects. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America
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