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Topology and analysis of an N-stage cascaded polymer eight-port microring optical router with 7N channel wavelengths

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Eight-port optical routers are widely used in cluster-mesh photonic networks-on-chip (NoC). By using 24 groups of cross-coupling two-ring resonators, a 1-stage 8-port polymer optical router is proposed, which can optically route 7 channel wavelength data streams along definite path in two-dimensional (2D) plane. Under the selected 7 channel wavelengths, the insertion losses along all routing paths are within 0.02–0.58 dB, the maximum crosstalk of all routing operations is less than −39 dB, and the device footprint size is about 0.79 mm2. Then, a universal novel structure and routing scheme of N-stage cascaded 8-port optical router are presented, which contains 7N channel wavelengths. Because of the good scalability in wavelength, this device shows potential application of wideband signal routing in optical NoC.

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  1. State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, China

    Cui-ting Li  (李翠婷), Ling-jiao Zheng  (郑玲娇), Yue Zheng  (郑悦) & Chuan-tao Zheng  (郑传涛)

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This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.61107021, 61177027 and 61077041), the Ministry of Education of China (Nos.20110061120052 and 20120061130008), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project (Nos. 20110491299 and 2012T50297), the Science and Technology Department of Jilin Province of China (No.20130522161JH), and the Special Funds of Basic Science and Technology of Jilin University (No.201103076).

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Li, Ct., Zheng, Lj., Zheng, Y. et al. Topology and analysis of an N-stage cascaded polymer eight-port microring optical router with 7N channel wavelengths. Optoelectron. Lett. 11, 36–40 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11801-015-4204-1

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