Four-port Silicon Multi-wavelength Optical Router for Photonic networks-on-chip

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-9-2013

Publication Title

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volume

25

First page number:

2281

Last page number:

2284

Abstract

We design and fabricate a four-port wavelength-selective optical router on silicon-on-insulator wafer for photonic networks-on-chip. The router consists of four basic operation blocks. Each is constructed by one microring resonator (MRR) based add-drop filter rather than the traditional two microrings based 2 × 2 optical crossbar. It can provide multiwavelength routing for each path to increase the aggregate data transmission bandwidth. The possible 12 I/O routing paths are experimentally observed in the transmission spectra and each of them has the ability to route four group wavelengths simultaneously in the measured spectral range. The device has a small footprint ( ~ 78×100 μm2) and low power consumption (6.58 mW).

Keywords

Adaptive optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon

Disciplines

Controls and Control Theory | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Electrical and Electronics | Electronic Devices and Semiconductor Manufacturing | Power and Energy | Signal Processing | Systems and Communications

Language

English

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