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Optica Publishing Group
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Vol. 36,
  • Issue 19,
  • pp. 4591-4601
  • (2018)

Programmable True Time Delay Lines Using Integrated Waveguide Meshes

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Abstract

We analyze and explore the potential that waveguide-mesh-based architectures used in programmable photonic integrated circuits can be configured to enable true time optical delay lines, which can find applications in different microwave photonics functionalities, such as beamforming and optical filtering. We also propose and experimentally demonstrate an alternative standalone tunable basic unit (TBU) architecture where its internal coupling device is implemented by means of a dual-drive tunable directional coupler (DD-TDC) that performs independent amplitude beam splitting and phase shifting. Compared to the previous alternatives based on 3-dB balanced Mach–Zehnder interferometers, the DD-TDC reduces by more than two times the insertion losses of TBUs enabling the potential realization of larger meshes with a three-fold enhanced step-time resolution. Bandwidth and robustness analysis are also considered.

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