Abstract
Compact all optical buffers on a silicon chip can be used for efficient buffering of light signal in interconnect networks. Sub-micron silicon waveguide on silicon-on-insulator (SOT) substrate provides tight light confinement in optical communication wavelength ranges. Compact ring resonators can be formed using a submicron silicon waveguide with a few microns of radius. Designing a light-buffering device by cascading multiple resonators with moderate quality factors simultaneously optimizes the device footprint and bandwidth. largest delay can be obtained. A buffering device containing 56 cascaded resonators in APF configuration, achieves a total delay of 5bps, and works up to a bit rate as high as 20Gbits, realizing a total buffering capacity of 10 bits.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages | 20 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Volume | 16 |
No | 1 |
Specialist publication | Advanced Packaging |
State | Published - Jan 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering