A continuously tunable integrated optical delay line architecture with large bandwidth and bandwidth-delay product is proposed and demonstrated. The non-resonant delay line is based on cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers with tunable couplers. The device is operated with a single control signal and outperforms the common ring-resonator-based delay lines in terms of bandwidth-delay product. A device with a delay tuning range of 124 ps is experimentally demonstrated over a transmission bandwidth of 4.5 GHz.

Cascaded Mach-Zehnder architectures for photonic integrated delay lines

Waqas A.;Melati D.;Melloni A.
2018-01-01

Abstract

A continuously tunable integrated optical delay line architecture with large bandwidth and bandwidth-delay product is proposed and demonstrated. The non-resonant delay line is based on cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometers with tunable couplers. The device is operated with a single control signal and outperforms the common ring-resonator-based delay lines in terms of bandwidth-delay product. A device with a delay tuning range of 124 ps is experimentally demonstrated over a transmission bandwidth of 4.5 GHz.
2018
integrated optics devices; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; Optical delay lines; optical filter; true-time delay
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