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Microring resonator-assisted Fourier transform spectrometer with enhanced resolution and large bandwidth in single chip solution.

ABSTRACT: Single chip integrated spectrometers are critical to bring chemical and biological sensing, spectroscopy, and spectral imaging into robust, compact and cost-effective devices. Existing on-chip spectrometer approaches fail to realize both high resolution and broad band. Here we demonstrate a microring resonator-assisted Fourier-transform (RAFT) spectrometer, which is realized using a tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) cascaded with a tunable microring resonator (MRR) to enhance the resolution, integrated with a photodetector onto a single chip. The MRR boosts the resolution to 0.47?nm, far beyond the Rayleigh criterion of the tunable MZI-based Fourier-transform spectrometer. A single channel achieves large bandwidth of ~?90?nm with low power consumption (35?mW for MRR and 1.8?W for MZI) at the expense of degraded signal-to-noise ratio due to time-multiplexing. Integrating a RAFT element array is envisaged to dramatically extend the bandwidth for spectral analytical applications such as chemical and biological sensing, spectroscopy, image spectrometry, etc.

SUBMITTER: Zheng SN

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6538731 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Microring resonator-assisted Fourier transform spectrometer with enhanced resolution and large bandwidth in single chip solution.

Zheng S N SN Zou J J Cai H H Song J F JF Chin L K LK Liu P Y PY Lin Z P ZP Kwong D L DL Liu A Q AQ

Nature communications 20190528 1

Single chip integrated spectrometers are critical to bring chemical and biological sensing, spectroscopy, and spectral imaging into robust, compact and cost-effective devices. Existing on-chip spectrometer approaches fail to realize both high resolution and broad band. Here we demonstrate a microring resonator-assisted Fourier-transform (RAFT) spectrometer, which is realized using a tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) cascaded with a tunable microring resonator (MRR) to enhance the resolut ...[more]

PMID: 31138800

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