MWP Best Paper award, Hui-Wen Chen.

"Hybrid Silicon Tunable Filter Based on a Mach Zehnder Interferometer and Ring Resonator"

A novel photonic integrated tunable filter on the hybrid silicon platform is proposed and demonstrated. The filter incorporates a ring resonator placed in one arm of  a Mach-Zehnder interferometer making it possible to obtain programmable filter transfer function. The microwave and optical frequency responses were also characterized.