Compact silicon photonic interleaver using loop-mirror-based Michelson-Gires-Tournois interferometer

A compact (125 μm × 376 μm) silicon photonic interleaver is proposed and experimentally demonstrated using loop-mirror-based Michelson-Gires-Tournois interferometer. The 3-dB and 20-dB bandwidths of the passband are ~1.245 nm and ~1.709 nm, respectively.

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