Dense wavelength division demultiplexing using photonic crystal waveguides based on cavity resonance

Abstract

We demonstrated a photonic crystal waveguide based dense wavelength division multiplexing device using the resonances in the cavities. The demultiplexing is achieved through filtering. This filtering is achieved by varying the radii of the surrounding holes of the cavity, which in turn changes the resonant wavelength of the cavity. The four wavelengths demultiplexed in the design are 0.8nm apart in the optical region centered on 1.55 and 1.56μm. The device designed and simulated has easy to realize structure as well as high quality factor. Two-dimensional Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) is chosen to do the simulation of this work.