Microring resonator optical buffer is attractive in high-speed optical network system, but ordinary microring resonator use strip waveguide as its basic light guide medium, which cannot provide small footprint, low di...Microring resonator optical buffer is attractive in high-speed optical network system, but ordinary microring resonator use strip waveguide as its basic light guide medium, which cannot provide small footprint, low dispersion and high delay-bandwidth product （DBP） simultaneously. Double-slot waveguide structure was first proposed to construct racetrack-microring resonators. It was found that cascading multiple microrings can increase the delay-bandwidth and lower the dispersion of the resonators by optimizing the structure parameters. Optical buffer cascaded by 8 microrings with fiat bandwidth of 20 GHz provided the delay of 150 ps and the dispersion of -10-7 ps/um over 1530-1630 nm, and the footprint of each microring was about 511ma2. This study can provide design methods and theoretical basis support for practical application.展开更多
文摘Microring resonator optical buffer is attractive in high-speed optical network system, but ordinary microring resonator use strip waveguide as its basic light guide medium, which cannot provide small footprint, low dispersion and high delay-bandwidth product （DBP） simultaneously. Double-slot waveguide structure was first proposed to construct racetrack-microring resonators. It was found that cascading multiple microrings can increase the delay-bandwidth and lower the dispersion of the resonators by optimizing the structure parameters. Optical buffer cascaded by 8 microrings with fiat bandwidth of 20 GHz provided the delay of 150 ps and the dispersion of -10-7 ps/um over 1530-1630 nm, and the footprint of each microring was about 511ma2. This study can provide design methods and theoretical basis support for practical application.
