Novel optical wavelength interleaver based on symmetrically parallel-coupled and apodized ring resonator arrays

Christopher John Kaalund; Zhe Jin; Wei Li; Gang-Ding Peng

doi:10.1117/12.504535

21 October 2003 Novel optical wavelength interleaver based on symmetrically parallel-coupled and apodized ring resonator arrays

Christopher John Kaalund, Zhe Jin, Wei Li, Gang-Ding Peng

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Proceedings Volume 5206, Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices: Materials, Optical Properties, and Applications IX; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.504535
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Optical ring-resonators could be used to synthesize filters with low crosstalk and flat passbands. Their application to DWDM interleaving has been proposed and investigated previously. However, a number of important factors related to this topic have not yet been considered and appropriately addressed. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme of a symmetrically parallel-coupled ring resonator array with coupling apodisation. We show that it can be used to construct a wavelength interleaver with remarkably improved performance. Various design factors have been considered. An optimization procedure was developed based on minimizing the channel crosstalk in the through and drop ports simultaneously by adjusting the ring-bus coupling coefficients. We show that apodisation in coupling could suppress channel crosstalk effectively, by choosing the optimal coupling coefficients. We also introduced the equalization of both the input and output coupling coefficients to minimise passband ripple. For a 50 - 100 GHz DWDM applications, four rings is found to be the best choice for array size. A four-ring filter achieves crosstalk -24 dB, insertion loss at resonance <1 dB, and good passband flatness (shape factor >0.6).

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Christopher John Kaalund, Zhe Jin, Wei Li, and Gang-Ding Peng "Novel optical wavelength interleaver based on symmetrically parallel-coupled and apodized ring resonator arrays", Proc. SPIE 5206, Photorefractive Fiber and Crystal Devices: Materials, Optical Properties, and Applications IX, (21 October 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.504535

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