Analysis of polymer electro-optic microring resonator switches

✍ Scribed by Xin Yan; Chun-Sheng Ma; Chuan-Tao Zheng; Xian-Yin Wang; Da-Ming Zhang

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 313 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0030-3992
• DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2009.09.011

✦ Synopsis

The structure and the principle for the polymer electro-optic microring resonator (MRR) switch are proposed as well as the transfer functions. The structural parameters are optimized; the transmission characteristics are analyzed including the output power, switching time, switching voltage, insertion loss, and crosstalk. When the operation voltage is 0 V, the insertion loss and crosstalk are $ 1.2 and À 20.2 dB, respectively; when the operation voltage is 10.0 V, those are $ 0.35 and À 20.0 dB, respectively. Furthermore, a novel method is presented for analyzing time-domain response of the device and the switching time is determined to be $ 10.71 ps. These results indicate the favorable switching functions of the designed device.