Passive ring-assisted Mach-Zehnder interleaver on silicon-on-insulator.

A passive ring-assisted Mach-Zehnder interferometer optical interleaver comprising a Y-bench, a 3-dB directional coupler, a ring-resonator, and a delay line is proposed. The interleaver is fabricated with 300 nm x 300 nm silicon wires on silicon-on-insulator. The fabricated interleaver demonstrates a flat-top spectral response. The measured free-spectral range is approximately 4 nm, the insertion loss is approximately -8 dB, and the crosstalk is <- 10 dB. Both the experimental and simulation results are in good agreement.

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