Fully reconfigurable compact RF photonic filters using high-Q silicon microdisk resonators

We present a fully reconfigurable fourth-order SOI RF-photonic filter with a tunable bandwidth of 0.9–5 GHz, FSR > 600 GHz, out-of-band rejection > 38 dB, and compact size (0.15 mm
²
) using high-Q resonator-based components.