Abstract

Integrated optical filters are key components in various photonic integrated circuits for applications of communication, spectroscopy, etc. The dichroic filters can be flexibly cascaded to construct filters with various channel numbers and bandwidths. Therefore, the development of high-performance and compact dichroic filters is crucial. In this work, we develop the dichroic filters with 1.49/1.55-µm channels by an inverse design. Benefiting from a search-space-dimension control strategy and advanced optimization algorithm, our efficient design method results in two high-performance dichroic filters without and with subwavelength gratings (SWGs). The comparison suggests that SWGs in filters can be useful for loss reduction and footprint compression by dispersion engineering. The developed dichroic filter with SWGs exhibits measured bandwidths of 26/29 nm, excess losses of < 0.5 dB, and crosstalks of <−10 dB with a compact footprint of 2.5 × 22.0 µm². It has advantages in performance or compactness compared to the previously reported counterparts. A triplexer with a footprint of 10.5 × 117 µm² is developed based on the dichroic filters, also showing decent overall performance and compactness.

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