Design of a Flexible-Grid 1 × 2 Wavelength-Selective Switch Using Silicon Microring Resonators

In this paper, a compact integrated flexible-grid 1 × 2 wavelength-selective switch is proposed. The device is designed by utilizing a structure with nine reconfigurable add-drop silicon microring resonators. Using thermal tuning, the transmission spectra of silicon microring resonators a...

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Main Authors:	Pengjun Wang, Tianjun Yang, Tingge Dai, Gencheng Wang, Jie Zhang, Weiwei Chen, Jianyi Yang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 2017-01-01
Series:	IEEE Photonics Journal
Subjects:	Flexible-grid wavelength-selective switch microring resonator.
Online Access:	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8107481/

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spelling	doaj-a6b8c31decb845ac9af27523e0a32efe2021-03-29T17:03:14ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552017-01-019611010.1109/JPHOT.2017.27729288107481Design of a Flexible-Grid 1 × 2 Wavelength-Selective Switch Using Silicon Microring ResonatorsPengjun Wang0Tianjun Yang1Tingge Dai2Gencheng Wang3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8651-9190Jie Zhang4Weiwei Chen5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5045-2537Jianyi Yang6Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, ChinaFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, ChinaDepartment of Information Science and Electronics Engineering and Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, ChinaDepartment of Information Science and Electronics Engineering and Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, ChinaFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, ChinaFaculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, ChinaDepartment of Information Science and Electronics Engineering and Cyrus Tang Center for Sensor Materials and Applications, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, ChinaIn this paper, a compact integrated flexible-grid 1 × 2 wavelength-selective switch is proposed. The device is designed by utilizing a structure with nine reconfigurable add-drop silicon microring resonators. Using thermal tuning, the transmission spectra of silicon microring resonators are coherently combined to provide adjustable bandwidths as desired. The operation principle and detailed analysis of the designed device are presented. Calculation results show the bandwidth tuning for the spectrum with the large bandwidth varies from 0.56 to 4.09 nm and the bandwidth tuning for the spectrum with the moderate bandwidth ranges from 0.38 to 2.64 nm. The integrated flexible-grid 1 × 2 wavelength-selective switch with the maximum bandwidth tunability has a maximum crosstalk of -11.5 dB.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8107481/Flexible-gridwavelength-selective switchmicroring resonator.
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spellingShingle	Pengjun Wang Tianjun Yang Tingge Dai Gencheng Wang Jie Zhang Weiwei Chen Jianyi Yang Design of a Flexible-Grid 1 × 2 Wavelength-Selective Switch Using Silicon Microring Resonators IEEE Photonics Journal Flexible-grid wavelength-selective switch microring resonator.
author_facet	Pengjun Wang Tianjun Yang Tingge Dai Gencheng Wang Jie Zhang Weiwei Chen Jianyi Yang
author_sort	Pengjun Wang
title	Design of a Flexible-Grid 1 × 2 Wavelength-Selective Switch Using Silicon Microring Resonators
title_short	Design of a Flexible-Grid 1 × 2 Wavelength-Selective Switch Using Silicon Microring Resonators
title_full	Design of a Flexible-Grid 1 × 2 Wavelength-Selective Switch Using Silicon Microring Resonators
title_fullStr	Design of a Flexible-Grid 1 × 2 Wavelength-Selective Switch Using Silicon Microring Resonators
title_full_unstemmed	Design of a Flexible-Grid 1 × 2 Wavelength-Selective Switch Using Silicon Microring Resonators
title_sort	design of a flexible-grid 1 × 2 wavelength-selective switch using silicon microring resonators
publisher	IEEE
series	IEEE Photonics Journal
issn	1943-0655
publishDate	2017-01-01
description	In this paper, a compact integrated flexible-grid 1 × 2 wavelength-selective switch is proposed. The device is designed by utilizing a structure with nine reconfigurable add-drop silicon microring resonators. Using thermal tuning, the transmission spectra of silicon microring resonators are coherently combined to provide adjustable bandwidths as desired. The operation principle and detailed analysis of the designed device are presented. Calculation results show the bandwidth tuning for the spectrum with the large bandwidth varies from 0.56 to 4.09 nm and the bandwidth tuning for the spectrum with the moderate bandwidth ranges from 0.38 to 2.64 nm. The integrated flexible-grid 1 × 2 wavelength-selective switch with the maximum bandwidth tunability has a maximum crosstalk of -11.5 dB.
topic	Flexible-grid wavelength-selective switch microring resonator.
url	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8107481/
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Design of a Flexible-Grid 1 × 2 Wavelength-Selective Switch Using Silicon Microring Resonators

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