Title :
Crosstalk limitations of microring-resonator based WDM demultiplexers on SOI
Author :
Jayatilleka, Hasitha ; Caverley, Michael ; Jaeger, Nicolas A. F. ; Shekhar, Sudip ; Chrostowski, Lukas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract :
We determine the radius that maximizes the channel count for microring WDM demultiplexers. By measuring crosstalk, we show channel spacing requirements and calculate maximum aggregate data rates for microring and second-order microring based WDM links.
Keywords :
channel spacing; demultiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical links; optical resonators; silicon-on-insulator; wavelength division multiplexing; SOI; channel count maximization; channel spacing; microring-resonator Based WDM demultiplexer crosstalk limitation; second-order microring based WDM link; silicon-on-insulator; Channel spacing; Crosstalk; Loss measurement; Optical attenuators; Power measurement; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Interconnects Conference (OI), 2015 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8178-6
DOI :
10.1109/OIC.2015.7115680
