TY - JOUR
AU - Zhang, Da-Ming
AB - Device architecture and design scheme of a universal 
$$N$$


N


-stage cascaded polymer four-port optical router with scalable 3
$$N$$


N


 channel wavelengths are proposed. Basic cross-coupling two-microring resonator routing element based on polymer materials is optimized for single-mode transmission, low optical loss and phase-match between microring waveguide and channel waveguide. Then, a one-stage four-port optical router is constructed using four-group basic routing elements, which has 12 possible I/O routing paths and 3 channel wavelengths. The insertion losses of each channel wavelength along every routing path are within the range of 0.04–0.63 dB, the maximum crosstalk between the on-port along each routing path and other off-ports is less than 
$$-39$$



-
39



 dB, and the device footprint size is 
$$\sim $$


∼


0.13 mm
$$^{2}$$




2



. Compared with the previously reported four-port silicon optical routers, this device possesses similar ring radius (
$$\sim $$


∼


10 
$$\upmu $$


μ


m) and device size (
$$<$$


<


1 mm
$$^{2})$$





2


)




. Aiming at wideband signal routing applications, we then construct a universal 
$$N$$


N


-stage cascaded polymer four-port optical router possessing scalable 3
$$N$$


N


 channel wavelengths. The proposed routing structure has potential application in photonic networks-on-chip, because of low insertion loss, low crosstalk, small footprint size, and scalable wideband 3
$$N$$


N


 routing wavelengths.
TI - Polymeric $$N$$ N -stage serial-cascaded four-port optical router with scalable $$3N$$ 3 N channel wavelengths for wideband signal routin ...
JF - Optical and Quantum Electronics
DO - 10.1007/s11082-013-9795-9
DA - 2013-10-12
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/polymeric-n-n-stage-serial-cascaded-four-port-optical-router-with-GtfqwQDb9K
SP - 829
EP - 849
VL - 46
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -