Photonic crystal-Microring resonators for tunable delay lines

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel photonic crystal microring resonator design for optical delay lines, demonstrating improved compactness and multi-channel capabilities through numerical simulations, compared to traditional cavity-based approaches.

Contribution

The paper presents a new photonic crystal microring resonator design that enhances compactness and multi-channel delay capabilities in optical delay lines.

Findings

Normalized delay values surpass point-defect cavity waveguides

Design offers better compactness than microring resonator CROWs

Supports multi-mode operation for multi-channel applications

Abstract

In this paper, a new design of optical delay line based on coupled ring resonators in photonic crystals is proposed and analyzed by means of numerical simulation in CST Microwave Studio. The performance of the proposed photonic crystal ring resonator (PhCRR) based coupled resonant optical waveguide (CROW) is compared to: point-defect cavity based coupled cavity waveguides (CCW) in photonic crystal. microring resonator (MRR) based CROW. The suggested design addresses compactness issues of the MRR CROW while offering normalized delay values better than CCW and comparable to MRR CROW. The PhCRR CROW also enhances design flexibility as the PhCRRs support multiple modes and thereby supporting multi-channel transfer/delay application on a single device.