UV-soft Imprinted Tunable Polymer Waveguide Ring Resonator for Microwave Photonic Filtering

作者：Han, Xiuyou^*; Wang, Linghua; Wang, Yu; Zou, Pin; Gu, Yiying; Teng, Jie; Wang, Jinyan; Jian, Xigao; Morthier, Geert; Zhao, Mingshan

来源：Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2014, 32(20): 3924-3932.

DOI：10.1109/JLT.2014.2310496

• Microwave photonics
• notch filter
• polymer waveguide
• ring resonator
• tunable coupler
• UV-soft imprint

A tunable polymer waveguide ring resonator is proposed and demonstrated for microwave photonic filtering. The ring resonator consists of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) as the tunable coupler and two micro-heaters as the thermo-optic phase shifters. It was fabricated with inorganic-organic hybrid optical material polysiloxane-liquid series by a novel and simple UV-soft selective imprint technique. The coupling conditions, over-, critical- and under-coupling, were obtained with the micro-heater on the arm of MZI and the maximum notch depth of about 18 dB was achieved. The resonant wavelength was also tuned with the micro-heater on the ring waveguide. The dispersion induced power fading of radio over fiber link was overcome by the tunable ring resonator with its notch filtering function.

• 出版日期2014-10-15
• 单位大连理工大学