All-optical photonic-crystal encoder capable of operating at multiple wavelengths

作者:Yang Yi Pin; Lin Kuen Cherng*; Yang I Chen; Lee Kun Yi; Lee Wei Yu; Tsai Yao Tsung
来源:Optik, 2017, 142: 354-359.
DOI:10.1016/j.ijleo.2017.05.067

摘要

An all-optical photonic-crystal-based encoder is proposed. The device is composed of two ring resonator waveguides with three input-port waveguides and two output-port waveguides in triangular-lattice photonic crystals. Transmission behaviors of the proposed device are verified by two-dimensional finite difference time domain method. The encoder can operate at various wavelengths such as 1.31, 1.49 and 1.55 p mu m, considering definitions of logic 0 and 1 being the normalized transmission as less than 5% and greater than 80%, respectively.