Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 11, Issue 1, 36(2015)

Topology and analysis of an N-stage cascaded polymer eight-port microring optical router with 7N channel wavelengths

Cui-ting LI... Ling-jiao ZHENG, Yue ZHENG and Chuan-tao ZHENG* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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    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.

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    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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    Paper Information

    Received: Oct. 27, 2014

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 12, 2017

    The Author Email: Chuan-tao ZHENG (zhengchuantao578@163.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-015-4204-1

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