• Optoelectronics Letters
  • Vol. 10, Issue 2, 91 (2014)
Qian-qian LUO, Xiao-liang HUANG, Chuan-tao ZHENG*, and Da-ming ZHANG
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  • State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s11801-014-3213-9 Cite this Article
    LUO Qian-qian, HUANG Xiao-liang, ZHENG Chuan-tao, ZHANG Da-ming. Optimization of a polymer four-port microring optical router with three channel wavelengths[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2014, 10(2): 91 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Optimization and simulation are performed for a polymer four-port microring optical router with three channel wavelengths, which contains four-group basic routing elements with two different ring radii. In terms of microring resonance theory, coupled mode theory and transfer matrix method, expressions of output power of basic routing element and optical router are derived. In order to realize single-mode propagation, low optical transmission loss and phase match between microring waveguide and channel waveguide, the device parameters are optimized. With the selected three channel wavelengths of 1550 nm, 1552 nm and 1554 nm, characteristics are calculated and analyzed, including output spectrum, insertion loss and crosstalk. Simulation results indicate that the device has 12 possible I/O routing paths, the insertion losses of three channel wavelengths along their routing paths are within the range of 0.02-0.61 dB, the maximum crosstalk between the on-port along each routing path and other off-ports is less than -39 dB, and the device footprint size is ~0.13 mm2. Based on the proposed structure, through proper selection on ring radius, the routing structure can also be used for other channel wavelengths. Therefore, the designed structure shows wide applications in integrated optical networks-on-chip (NoC).
    LUO Qian-qian, HUANG Xiao-liang, ZHENG Chuan-tao, ZHANG Da-ming. Optimization of a polymer four-port microring optical router with three channel wavelengths[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2014, 10(2): 91
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