Design and analysis of a channel drop filter and demultiplexer based on a photonic crystal super ellipse-shaped ring resonator

Abstract

In advanced optical communication systems, a photonic crystal (PC) based channel drop filter (CDF) and dense wavelength division multiplexer (DWDM) demultiplexer are essential components in the design of a complete DWDM system, which offers a high transmission data rate. In the present work, a novel PC, CDF filter and demultiplexer based on a ring resonator with a super ellipse shape is designed and analyzed. To design a high-performance device, the performance parameters of the proposed components, such as transmission efficiency, spectral line width, channel spacing, Q-factor and crosstalk, are investigated. The proposed CDF is designed to drop a resonant wavelength with a high quality factor of 3955, and the ring resonator design is extended to the demultiplexer. The demultiplexer is designed to drop the four resonant wavelengths of 1579.8 nm, 1582 nm, 1583.6 nm and 1574.9 nm, respectively. The observed high quality factor (3955), bandwidth (0.4 nm) and transmission efficiency (90%) of the proposed demultiplexer will support high-performance DWDM systems