Two dimensional Photonic Crystal Ring Resonator based Add Drop Filter for CWDM systems

Abstract In this paper, two-dimensional circular Photonic Crystal Ring Resonator (2D PCRR) based Add Drop Filter (ADF) using circular rods is designed for ITU-T G.694.2 eight channel Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) systems to add/drop a channel centered at a resonant wavelength of 1491 nm. The Plane Wave Expansion (PWE) method and 2D Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method are employed to obtain the Photonic Band Gap (PBG) range and output spectra of the ADF. Close to 100% of coupling and dropping efficiencies, 13 nm of passband width and 114.69 of quality factor are observed for the designed filter at 1491 nm which is highly sufficient and fulfill the requirement of ITU-T G.694.2 CWDM system. Further, the resonant wavelength tuning possibilities of ADF are theoretically studied to cover the lower channels of CWDM systems. The structural parameters such as refractive index, lattice constant and radius of the rod in the structure are considered for resonant wavelength tuning.

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