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ArticleScientific reports2016

Subwavelength grating enabled on-chip ultra-compact optical true time delay line.

Junjia Wang, Reza Ashrafi, Rhys Adams, Ivan Glesk, Ivana Gasulla, José Capmany, Lawrence R Chen

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Junjia WangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3A 0E9, Canada.
Reza AshrafiDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3A 0E9, Canada.
Rhys AdamsDepartment of Physics, CEGEP Vanier College, Montréal, Québec H4L 3X9, Canada.
Ivan GleskDepartment of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XU, UK.
Ivana GasullaITEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, 46022, Spain.
José CapmanyITEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, 46022, Spain.
Lawrence R ChenDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3A 0E9, Canada.
McGill University · CAUniversitat Politècnica de València · ESCegep de Trois-Rivieres · CAUniversity of Strathclyde · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An optical true time delay line (OTTDL) is a basic photonic building block that enables many microwave photonic and optical processing operations. The conventional design for an integrated OTTDL that is based on spatial diversity uses a length-variable waveguide array to create the optical time delays, which can introduce complexities in the integrated circuit design. Here we report the first ever demonstration of an integrated index-variable OTTDL that exploits spatial diversity in an equal length waveguide array. The approach uses subwavelength grating waveguides in silicon-on-insulator (SOI), which enables the realization of OTTDLs having a simple geometry and that occupy a compact chip area. Moreover, compared to conventional wavelength-variable delay lines with a few THz operation bandwidth, our index-variable OTTDL has an extremely broad operation bandwidth practically exceeding several tens of THz, which supports operation for various input optical signals with broad ranges of central wavelength and bandwidth.

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