title: Buffering capability and limitations in low dispersion photonic crystal waveguides with elliptical airholes.
abstract: A low dispersion photonic crystal waveguide with triangular lattice elliptical airholes is proposed for compact, high-performance optical buffering applications. In the proposed structure, we obtain a negligible-dispersion bandwidth with constant group velocity ranging from c/41 to c/256, by optimizing the major and minor axes of bulk elliptical holes and adjusting the position and the hole size of the first row adjacent to the defect. In addition, the limitations of buffer performance in a dispersion engineering waveguide are well studied. The maximum buffer capacity and the maximum data rate can reach as high as 262bits and 515 Gbits/s, respectively. The corresponding delay time is about 255.4ps.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Ministry of Education, School of Informationand Telecommunication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,P.O. Box 90, BUPT, No. 10, Xitucheng Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100876, China.
authors.forename: Fang
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: Huiping
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Yuefeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ji