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Design and analysis of a novel four‐channel optical filter using ring resonators and line defects in photonic crystal microstructure

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In this paper, we report a new design of an all-optical filter using photonic crystal microstructure. Ring resonators, line defects, scatterer rods, microcavities, and coupling rods are used to form the filter in order to extract specific wavelengths at the output channels. The well-known plane wave expansion method is used to calculate the photonic band diagram. The widely used finite-difference time-domain method is also applied to study the light propagation inside the filter. Our numerical results demonstrate that the proposed structure has high transmission power, high-quality factor, and low cross-talk. They reveal an optical signal centered at 1522 nm exits the first output channel, which has an output-to-input ratio (OIR) of 95 % with a bandwidth (FWHM) of 0.4 nm, and an optical signal centered at 1520.8 nm exits the second output channel with an OIR of 98 % and an FWHM of 0.5 nm. The third output channel can exit the optical signal centered at 1518.2 nm with an OIR of 78 % and an FWHM of 0.4 nm. Furthermore, the fourth channel will exit the optical signal at 1519.3 nm with an OIR of 56 % and an FWHM of 0.4 nm. Therefore, the quality factors of the first to fourth outputs of the filter are equal to 3805, 3041, 3795, and 3798, respectively. The first to fourth outputs’ cross-talk values are also − 37 dB, − 36 dB, − 41 dB, and − 38 dB, respectively, which confirm the least interference between output channels. Besides, linear dielectric rods form the filter design that leads to the filter’s appropriate performance at a low input power that is the most important benefit of this work compared to other recently published articles. The maximum rise time of the proposed filter for all output ports is less than 8 ps. The structure also has ​​375.84 µm2, which makes the filter easy to use in photonic integrated circuits.

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    Amin Foroughifar

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    Hamed Saghaei

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Foroughifar, A., Saghaei, H. & Veisi, E. Design and analysis of a novel four‐channel optical filter using ring resonators and line defects in photonic crystal microstructure. Opt Quant Electron 53, 101 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-021-02743-z

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