Five-port optical router for photonic networks-on-chip

doi:10.1364/OE.19.020258

Five-port optical router for photonic networks-on-chip

Ruiqiang Ji, Lin Yang, Lei Zhang, Yonghui Tian, Jianfeng Ding, Hongtao Chen, Yangyang Lu, Ping Zhou, and Weiwei Zhu »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 21, pp. 20258-20268 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.020258

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We experimentally demonstrate a spatially non-blocking five-port optical router, which is based on microring resonators tuned through the thermo-optic effect. The characteristics of the microring-resonator-based switching element are investigated to achieve balanced performances in its two output ports. The optical router is fabricated on the SOI platform using standard CMOS processing. The effective footprint of the device is about 440×660 μm². The microring resonators have 3-dB bandwidths of larger than 0.31 nm (38 GHz), and extinction ratios of better than 21 dB for through ports and 16 dB for drop ports. Finally, 12.5 Gbps high-speed signal transmission experiments verify the routing functionality of the optical router.

OCIS Codes
(130.0130) Integrated optics : Integrated optics
(230.5750) Optical devices : Resonators
(250.5300) Optoelectronics : Photonic integrated circuits
(130.4815) Integrated optics : Optical switching devices

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Integrated Optics

History
Original Manuscript: August 3, 2011
Revised Manuscript: September 21, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: September 22, 2011
Published: September 30, 2011

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Ruiqiang Ji, Lin Yang, Lei Zhang, Yonghui Tian, Jianfeng Ding, Hongtao Chen, Yangyang Lu, Ping Zhou, and Weiwei Zhu, "Five-port optical router for photonic networks-on-chip," Opt. Express 19, 20258-20268 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-21-20258

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