The Maximum Transmission Rate for the Silicon-Based Racetrack Microresonator

Author

Somkuarnpanit, S. ; Khuntaweetep, S. ; Sae-tang, K.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., King Mongkut´´s Inst. of Technol., Bangkok

fYear

2004

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

289

Lastpage

290

Abstract

This paper determines the possibly maximum rate for the optical signal transmitting thorough the racetrack resonator devices. The method of finite-difference time-domain was employed to determine how an optical impulse getting through the device. We observe that the signal requires a certain number of round-trips to couple the signal to the throughput, and causes the delay of the pulse outputting from the device. This indicates that the possible pulse width is in a range of picoseconds, which corresponding to the maximum transmission rate of over a hundred gigabits per second

Keywords

finite difference time-domain analysis; integrated optics; micro-optics; microcavities; optical resonators; silicon; Si; finite-difference time-domain method; maximum transmission rate; optical impulse; optical signal transmission; pulse outputting delay; racetrack microresonator; racetrack resonator devices; silicon-based microresonator; Couplings; Delay; Finite difference methods; Microcavities; Optical devices; Optical pulses; Optical resonators; Space vector pulse width modulation; Throughput; Time domain analysis; FDTD; Microresonator; Transmission rate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, 2004 Conference on

Conference_Location

Brisbane, Qld.

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8820-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMMAD.2004.1577547

Filename

1577547