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By using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) platform, 12 channel waveguides, and four parallel-coupling one-microring resonator routing elements, a non-blocking four-port optical router is proposed. Structure design and optimization are performed on the routing elements at 1 550 nm. At drop state with a power consumption of 0 mW, the insertion loss of the drop port is less than 1.12 dB, and the crosstalk between the two output ports is less than −28 dB; at through state with a power consumption of 22 mW, the insertion loss of the through port is less than 0.45 dB, and the crosstalk between the two output ports is below −21 dB. Routing topology and function are demonstrated for the four-port optical router. The router can work at nine non-blocking routing states using the thermo-optic (TO) effect of silicon for tuning the resonance of each switching element. Detailed characterizations are presented, including output spectrum, insertion loss, and crosstalk. According to the analysis on all the data links of the router, the insertion loss is within the range of 0.13—3.36 dB, and the crosstalk is less than −19.46 dB. The router can meet the need of large-scale optical network-on-chip (ONoC).
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This work has been supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61107021 and 61177027), the Ministry of Education of China (Nos.20110061120052 and 20120061130008), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (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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Dang, Pp., Li, Ct., Zheng, Wx. et al. Non-blocking four-port optical router based on thermooptic silicon microrings. Optoelectron. Lett. 12, 268–272 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11801-016-6105-3
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