Tunable bandpass microwave photonic filter with largely reconfigurable bandwidth and steep shape factor based on cascaded silicon nitride micro-ring resonators

Authors:
  • WCWei Cheng
    Wei Cheng
  • PWPengfei Wang
    Pengfei Wang
  • SSShangqing Shi
    Shangqing Shi
  • MLMengjia Lu
    Mengjia Lu
  • JWJin Wang
    Jin Wang
  • CGChen Guo
    Chen Guo
  • YCYifei Chen
    Yifei Chen
  • GHGuohua Hu
    Guohua Hu
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Abstract
Bandpass microwave photonic filter (MPF) can be achieved based on the well-known phase to intensity conversion method by using phase modulation and single micro-ring resonator (MRR) notch filter. Since MRR could introduce residual phase in handling one optical sideband, the out-of-band radio frequency (RF) rejection ratio and the shape factor of the bandpass MPF are very limited. Here, by introducing another MRR to handle the other optical sideband, the residual phase can be greatly suppressed, thus the filter’s performance can be greatly improved. The proposed bandpass MPF was both verified theoretically and experimentally. Compared with the single MRR, the out-of-band RF rejection ratio and the shape factor were improved by 20 dB and 1.67, respectively. Furthermore, the bandpass MPF’s bandwidth is reconfigurable by adjusting the optical carrier’s frequency or the two MRRs’ amplitude coupling coefficients. The bandpass MPF’s center frequency is also tunable by changing the resonant wavelengths of two MRRs in the opposite direction simultaneously. Experimentally, bandwidth reconfiguration from 0.38 GHz to 15.74 GHz, the shape factor optimization from 2 to 1.23, and frequency tuning from 4 GHz to 21.5 GHz were achieved. We believe that the proposed bandpass MPF has great potential for microwave photonic signal processing.
Funding Information
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (62171118)

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