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Edwin Jan Klein - Universiteit Twente

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Power<br />

Densely integrated devices for WDM-PON<br />

Figure 7.21. New channel configuration with 8 alternating up and downstream channels<br />

which have a 50 GHz channel spacing.<br />

The schematic layout and the mask design of the 1x4x4 (1x8x4) router are shown in<br />

Figure 7.22. The router consists of a 4x4 microring-resonator router matrix and a 4<br />

microring-resonator demultiplexer. For the individual resonators in the design the<br />

basic building block described in Chapter 6 was used with a resonator waveguide<br />

thickness of 180 nm. Because the router essentially consists of a large number of<br />

wavelength selective switches the individual resonators in the matrix can be designed<br />

using the same design rules as described in Chapter 6.4.1. Therefore, in order to<br />

achieve a bandwidth of ≈50 GHz, the target for the coupling coefficients in the design<br />

was ≈0.6.<br />

Bond pads<br />

In<br />

Upstream<br />

500 GHz<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<br />

Test waveguides<br />

Router matrix<br />

5 mm<br />

Figure 7.22. Schematic layout of the 1x8x4 router (top) and the equivalent mask design<br />

(bottom).<br />

As indicated in the mask design the router matrix is situated in the center of a chip<br />

that measures only 5 x 2 mm. The vertical distance between the resonators in the<br />

173<br />

Guard band<br />

Channel #<br />

Downstream<br />

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8<br />

2 mm<br />

Out1<br />

Out2<br />

Out3<br />

Out4<br />

Express through<br />

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