• Optoelectronics Letters
  • Vol. 11, Issue 1, 36 (2015)
Cui-ting LI, Ling-jiao ZHENG, Yue ZHENG, and Chuan-tao ZHENG*
Author Affiliations
  • State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s11801-015-4204-1 Cite this Article
    LI Cui-ting, ZHENG Ling-jiao, ZHENG Yue, ZHENG Chuan-tao. Topology and analysis of an N-stage cascaded polymer eight-port microring optical router with 7N channel wavelengths[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2015, 11(1): 36 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Eight-port optical routers are widely used in cluster-mesh photonic networks-on-chip (NoC). By using 24 groups of cross-coupling two-ring resonators, a 1-stage 8-port polymer optical router is proposed, which can optically route 7 channel wavelength data streams along definite path in two-dimensional (2D) plane. Under the selected 7 channel wavelengths, the insertion losses along all routing paths are within 0.02-0.58 dB, the maximum crosstalk of all routing operations is less than -39 dB, and the device footprint size is about 0.79 mm2. Then, a universal novel structure and routing scheme of N-stage cascaded 8-port optical router are presented, which contains 7N channel wavelengths. Because of the good scalability in wavelength, this device shows potential application of wideband signal routing in optical NoC.
    LI Cui-ting, ZHENG Ling-jiao, ZHENG Yue, ZHENG Chuan-tao. Topology and analysis of an N-stage cascaded polymer eight-port microring optical router with 7N channel wavelengths[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2015, 11(1): 36
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