Design and characterization of multiple coupled microring based wavelegnth demultiplexer in silicon-on-insulator (SOI)

Haroon, Hazura and Abdul Razak, Hanim and Bidin, Mardiana and Menon, P.S and Shaari, A.R and Arsad, N. and Mukhtar, W.M. and Abdullah, H. (2012) Design and characterization of multiple coupled microring based wavelegnth demultiplexer in silicon-on-insulator (SOI). Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials, 21 (1). pp. 1250004-1. ISSN 10.1142/S021886351250004X

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Abstract

We report in this paper, an optimized design and characterization of SOI based single mode, four channels wavelength demultiplexer using microrings. The usage of siliconon- insulator (SOI) allows a wide free spectral range (FSR) for the device that is crucial in developing ultra-compact integrations of planar lightwave circuits (PLCs). The characterizations are done using Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) mode simulations from RSOFT. Serially cascaded microring arrays up to the third order are presented to study the design trade-off among the FSR, Q-factor and optical losses of the laterally coupled wavelength demultiplexer. The demultiplexer is expected to be working at C-band region of Wavelength Division Multilplexing (WDM) for a wavelength around 1550 nm. Our proposed demultiplexer has low insertion loss (< 0.5 dB) and a crosstalk around 12 ∼ 19 dB.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions:	Faculty of Electronics and Computer Engineering > Department of Telecommunication Engineering
Depositing User:	Hazura Haroon
Date Deposited:	25 Apr 2014 02:26
Last Modified:	28 May 2015 04:23
URI:	http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/12259
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