Tunable narrowband microwave photonic filter created by stimulated Brillouin scattering from a silicon nanowire

Opt Lett. 2015 Sep 1;40(17):4154-7. doi: 10.1364/OL.40.004154.

Abstract

We demonstrate the first, to the best of our knowledge, functional signal processing device based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in a silicon nanowire. We use only 1 dB of on-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering gain to create an RF photonic notch filter with 48 dB of suppression, 98 MHz linewidth, and 6 GHz frequency tuning. This device has potential applications in on-chip microwave signal processing and establishes the foundation for the first CMOS-compatible high-performance RF photonic filter.