Abstract
A tunable polymer waveguide ring resonator is proposed and demonstrated for microwave photonic
filtering. The ring resonator consists of a Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) as the tunable coupler and two
micro-heaters as the thermo-optic phase shifters. It was fabricated with inorganic–organic hybrid optical
material polysiloxane-liquid series by a novel and simple UV-soft selective imprint technique. The coupling
conditions, over-, critical- and under-coupling, were obtained with the micro-heater on the arm of MZI and the maximum
notch depth of about 18 dB was achieved. The resonant wavelength was also tuned with the micro-heater on the ring
waveguide. The dispersion induced power fading of radio over fiber link was overcome by the tunable ring resonator
with its notch filtering function.
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