title: Apodized SCISSORs for filtering and switching.
abstract: This paper presents 1550-nm simulation results on the waveguided silicon-on-insulator four-port optical filtering and switching devices known as "SCISSOR" (an in-line array of microring resonators wherein each ring is coupled to two bus waveguides). We optimized the array number, the ring-bus coupling and the inter-ring spacing in order to obtain "rectangular" filter-passband shapes that have not heretofore been reported in the resonant-optics literature. We were able to engineer a box-like bandpass whose wavelength width could be anywhere from 5 to 50 % of the free spectral range (FSR). We then performed ring-bus apodization of the array that increased side-lobe suppression on the main filter band and widened the band. By reducing the FSR to 2.51 nm with increased ring diameter, we also showed that complete, high-extinction 2 x 2 optical switching is attained when the effective index of each ring in the group is changed by 2 x 10(-3), giving 1.02-nm shift of the 0.77-nm passband. Tunable filtering, sensing, reconfigurable add/drop and wavelength-division demultiplexing is offered in addition to switching.
authors: Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8001, USA. sangycho@nmsu.edu
authors: Sang-Yeon
authors: SY
authors: Cho
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Soref
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005374:Filtration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D055096:Optical Devices; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014159:Transducers