We experimentally demonstrate a microelectromechanically (MEMS) tunable photonic ring resonator add-drop filter, fabricated in a simple silicon-on-insulator (SOI) based process. The device uses electrostatic parallel plate actuation to perturb the evanescent field of a silicon waveguide, and achieves a 530 pm resonance wavelength tuning, i.e., more than a fourfold improvement compared to previo...

Four designs of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) filter employing integrated broadside-coupled complementary split-ring resonators (BC-CSRR) are compared. By changing the orientation rings, four types of SIW unit cell are proposed and investigated and it is shown that, for one particular topology, two poles and two zeroes can be realised with a single unit cell. Bandpass filters based on th...

We demonstrate planar Si3N4 ring resonators with ultra-high quality factors (Q) of 19 million, 28 million, and 7 million at 1060 nm, 1310 nm, and 1550 nm, respectively. By integrating the ultra-low-loss Si3N4 ring resonators with laterally offset planar waveguide directional couplers, optical add-drop and notch filters are demonstrated to have ultra-narrow bandwidths of 16 MHz, 38 MHz, and 300 ...

In this article, we present a comprehensive discussion of new class inline microwave filters with transmission zeros in the response, namely, path filters. The main features are highlighted, and an original (synthesis-based) design approach is presented, relying on derivation suitable characteristic polynomials. addition to classical generalized Chebyshev characteristic, two characteristics int...

Circular and Radial SIW cavity resonators are proposed to enhance the performance of SIW bandstop filter. Prior to this research work, rectangular cavity resonator was used to produce bandstop response. The design of the circular and radial SIW bandstop filters are done by directly coupling circular and radial cavity resonators to the SIW line. The SIW bandstop filters are designed to operate a...

Title of dissertation: MODELING AND DESIGN OF MICROWAVE-MILLIMETERWAVE FILTERS AND MULTIPLEXERS Yunchi Zhang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Kawthar A. Zaki Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Modern communication systems require extraordinarily stringent speci…cations on microwave and millimeter-wave components. In mobile and integrated communicati...

Starting in the early 1960’s, when the integrated-circuit (IC) technology was developed, micromachining and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) have grown into a broad research field with several commercial successes. Typical applications of MEMS are in physical, chemical and biochemical sensors, as well as in optical systems such as the digital micromirror device of Texas Instruments. From t...

In this paper, chiral E-shaped resonators are used in a waveguide. Direction of EM wave and position of resonators for effective excitation is studied and various resonances of E-shaped resonators are determined. As a consequence an analytical equivalent circuit model is proposed. Finally, an array of these resonators is used to realize a wide reject band. The resulted band stop filter performa...