Title :
Building block based design of photonic integrated circuits for generic photonic foundries
Author :
Melati, Daniele ; Morichetti, Francesco ; Soares, Francisco M. ; Melloni, Andrea
Author_Institution :
DEI, Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy
Abstract :
Building block and circuit simulation concepts are discussed with their advantages for the design and the production of photonics integrated circuits. Two examples are presented to demonstrate the validity of the circuit-based simulation in the prediction of the behaviour of the real circuit. Final results are comparable to those obtained through an electromagnetic simulation, also when spurious effects as mode coupling or chip facet induced cavities are taken into account.
Keywords :
circuit simulation; foundries; integrated circuit design; integrated optics; semiconductor device manufacture; chip facet induced cavities; circuit-based simulation; electromagnetic simulation; generic photonic foundries; mode coupling; photonic integrated circuit design; photonics integrated circuit production; Circuit simulation; Couplings; Foundries; Integrated circuit modeling; Optical filters; Optical waveguides; Photonics; all-pass filter; building block; circuit simulation; generic foundry; mode coupling; scattering matrix;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Coventry
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2228-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-2056
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254464