Two- and three-dimensional studies of a silicon-based chromatic dispersion compensator

Author

Png, C.E. ; Lim, S.T. ; Li, E.P. ; Danner, A.J. ; Ogawa, K. ; Tan, Y.T.

Author_Institution

Computational Electronics and Photonics, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, 1 Fusionopolis Way, #16-16 Connexis Singapore 138632, Singapore

Volume

2009-Supplement

fYear

2009

fDate

2-6 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate two- and three-dimensional (3D) simulations of an active silicon-based photonic crystal chromatic dispersion compensator utilizing the free carrier dispersion effect. The device has a low power consumption of 114nW and its intrinsic device modulation speed is predicted to function at 40.5MHz. Due to the device architecture, simulation must be carried out in 3D so as to fully encapsulate the effects of the photonic crystal contributions in the active silicon. The novel device allows waveguiding and electrical transport to be individually tailored to a large extent.

Keywords

Chromatic dispersion; Energy consumption; High performance computing; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber communication; Optical filters; Optical refraction; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Silicon; chromatic dispersion compensator; free carrier dispersion effect; integrated optics; photonic circuits; photonic crystal; silicon photonics; silicon-on-insulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), 2009 Asia

Conference_Location

Shanghai, China

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-877-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-877-3

Type

conf

Filename

5405481