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ArticleNature communications2023

Integrated reconstructive spectrometer with programmable photonic circuits.

Chunhui Yao, Kangning Xu, Wanlu Zhang, Minjia Chen, Qixiang Cheng, Richard Penty

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Chunhui YaoCentre for Photonic Systems, Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, UK.
Kangning XuGlitterinTech Limited, Xuzhou, 221000, China.
Wanlu ZhangCentre for Photonic Systems, Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, UK.
Minjia ChenCentre for Photonic Systems, Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5361-8179
Qixiang ChengCentre for Photonic Systems, Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, UK. qc223@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8671-2102
Richard PentyCentre for Photonic Systems, Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, UK.

Funding

RCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/T028475/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical spectroscopic sensors are a powerful tool to reveal light-matter interactions in many fields. Miniaturizing the currently bulky spectrometers has become imperative for the wide range of applications that demand in situ or even in vitro characterization systems, a field that is growing rapidly. In this paper, we propose a novel integrated reconstructive spectrometer with programmable photonic circuits by simply using a few engineered MZI elements. This design effectively creates an exponentially scalable number of uncorrelated sampling channels over an ultra-broad bandwidth without incurring additional hardware costs, enabling ultra-high resolution down to single-digit picometers. Experimentally, we implement an on-chip spectrometer with a 6-stage cascaded MZI structure and demonstrate <10 pm resolution with >200 nm bandwidth using only 729 sampling channels. This achieves a bandwidth-to-resolution ratio of over 20,000, which is, to our best knowledge, about one order of magnitude greater than any reported miniaturized spectrometers to date.

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PMID37821463
PMCPMC10567699

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