A Photonic Crystal Delay Line with Two Time Delays

Author

Fakharzadeh, M. ; Ramahi, O.M. ; Safavi-Naeini, S. ; Chaudhuri, S.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont.

fYear

2006

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1383

Lastpage

1386

Abstract

The paper proposed a novel photonic crystal delay line which can generate two different time-delays. This two port device can be implemented with silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. The authors show that two different time delays, 1.68ps and 3.3ps, are achievable with a device size less than 25mum, which corresponds to slowing light by a factor of 40. Guidelines for maintaining high isolation between the two ports and for achieving low reflection from corners were discussed. Finally, applications for this delay lines were presented

Keywords

finite difference time-domain analysis; integrated optics; optical delay lines; photonic crystals; silicon-on-insulator; FDTD; crosstalk; high isolation; optical microfluidics; photonic crystal delay line; silicon-on-insulator; time delays; two port device; Delay effects; Delay lines; Finite difference methods; High speed optical techniques; Optical crosstalk; Optical reflection; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Silicon on insulator technology; Spirals; Crosstalk; FDTD; delay line; isolation; optical microfluidics; photonic crystal;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2006. 36th European

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-6-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMC.2006.281294

Filename

4058092