Orthogonally polarized RF optical single sideband generation with integrated ring resonators

Mengxi Tan; Xingyuan Xu; Jiayang Wu; Thach G. Nguyen; Sai T. Chu; Brent E. Little; Arnan Mitchell; Roberto Morandotti; David J. Moss

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/42/4/041305

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Journal of Semiconductors
Vol. 42, Issue 4, 041305 (2021)

Orthogonally polarized RF optical single sideband generation with integrated ring resonators

Mengxi Tan¹, Xingyuan Xu², Jiayang Wu¹, Thach G. Nguyen³..., Sai T. Chu⁴, Brent E. Little⁵, Arnan Mitchell³, Roberto Morandotti^6,7 and David J. Moss¹|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Optical Sciences Centre, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia

²Electro-Photonics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, VIC3800, Australia

³School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia

⁴Department of Physics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

⁵State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Xi'an 710119, China

⁶INRS -Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec, J3X 1S2, Canada

⁷Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China

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Mengxi Tan, Xingyuan Xu, Jiayang Wu, Thach G. Nguyen, Sai T. Chu, Brent E. Little, Arnan Mitchell, Roberto Morandotti, David J. Moss. Orthogonally polarized RF optical single sideband generation with integrated ring resonators[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2021, 42(4): 041305 Copy Citation Text

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Abstract

We review recent work on narrowband orthogonally polarized optical RF single sideband generators as well as dual-channel equalization, both based on high-Q integrated ring resonators. The devices operate in the optical telecommunications C-band and enable RF operation over a range of either fixed or thermally tuneable frequencies. They operate via TE/TM mode birefringence in the resonator. We achieve a very large dynamic tuning range of over 55 dB for both the optical carrier-to-sideband ratio and the dual-channel RF equalization for both the fixed and tunable devices.

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