Application of optical micro-resonators in silicon photonics: theory, simulation and experiment.
It is foreseeable that in the next decades it will be necessary to tackle with multi-processor data transfer rates of over 100 Terabit/s. The only viable technology for transmitting this level of information is using optical interconnects. Besides a huge data rate, optical interconnects also allow for additional flexibility through the use of Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM). This additional flexibility may be employed for the realization of more intelligent interconnect systems, such as optical network-on-chip systems. Our aim was to design innovative devices both for increasing the data rate and for enhancing the routing flexibility through optical WDM circuits based on coupled resonators for filtering and through reconfigurable optical router networks exploiting (large bandwidth) multiple cascading and/or multiple coupling (low group velocity) periodicity effects.