Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 5, Issue 1, 99(2012)

Compact all-optical differential-equation solver based on silicon microring resonator

Liyang LU, Jiayang WU, Tao WANG, and Yikai SU*
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  • State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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    We propose and numerically demonstrate an ultrafast real-time ordinary differential equation (ODE) computing unit in optical field based on a silicon microring resonator, operating in the critical coupling region as an optical temporal differentiator. As basic building blocks of a signal processing system, a subtractor and a splitter are included in the proposed structure. This scheme is featured with high speed, compact size and integration on a siliconon- insulator (SOI) wafer. The size of this computing unit is only 35 μm × 45 μm. In this paper, the performance of the proposed structure is theoretically studied and analyzed by numerical simulations.

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    Liyang LU, Jiayang WU, Tao WANG, Yikai SU. Compact all-optical differential-equation solver based on silicon microring resonator[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2012, 5(1): 99

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    Paper Information

    Received: Aug. 31, 2011

    Accepted: Sep. 14, 2011

    Published Online: Sep. 10, 2012

    The Author Email: SU Yikai (yikaisu@sjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s12200-012-0186-9

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