• DocumentCode
    1571510
  • Title

    A three-ring-resonator electro-optical switch with reduced jitter and enhanced speed and extinction ratio

  • Author

    Song, Muping ; Zhang, Lin ; Zou, Lianggang ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Beausoleil, Raymond G. ; Willner, Alan E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    459
  • Lastpage
    460
  • Abstract
    As a single-ring resonator is used for bit-by-bit switching, a large jitter of 63 ps and low extinction ratio may occur due to cavity photon lifetime. We propose a three-microring switch with only the middle ring driven, which exhibits a jitter as low as 6.4 ps and extinction ratio (ER) of up to 18 dB in the bus waveguide.
  • Keywords
    cavity resonators; electro-optical switches; high-speed optical techniques; jitter; micro-optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical resonators; bit-by-bit switching; bus waveguide; cavity photon lifetime; extinction ratio; jitter; single-ring resonator; three-microring switch; three-ring-resonator electrooptical switch; time 63 ps; Delay; Extinction ratio; Laser tuning; Optical resonators; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Resonance; Signal analysis; Timing jitter; Transfer functions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the
  • Conference_Location
    Acapulco
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1931-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1932-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2008.4688689
  • Filename
    4688689