Design of an ultra-compact graphene-based integrated microphotonic tunable delay line

Optics Express
Giuseppe BrunettiMario N Armenise

Abstract

The design of a continuously tunable optical delay line based on a compact graphene-based silicon Bragg grating is reported. High performance, in terms of electro-optical switching time (tswitch < 8 ns), delay range (Δτ = 200 ps), and figure of merit FOM = Δτ/A = 1.54x105 ps/mm2, has been achieved with an ultra-compact device footprint (A ~1.3 x 10-3 mm2), so improving the state-of-the-art of integrated optical delay lines. A continuous and complete tunability of the delay time can be achieved with a very low delay loss ( = 0.03 dB/ps) and a weak power consumption ( = 0.05 mW/ps). A flat bandwidth B = 1.19 GHz has been calculated by exploiting the slow-light effect in the device. This performance makes the proposed optical delay line suitable for several applications in Microwave Photonics (MWP), such as beamsteering/beamforming, for which large delay range, flat and wide bandwidth and small volume are required.

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Jul 19, 2020·Optics Express·Gongcheng YueTiegen Liu

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