Application of Photonic Crystal Ring Resonators for Realizing All Optical Demultiplexers
Abstract Transmission efficiency, quality factor, crosstalk levels and number of output channels are the most crucial parameters in designing optical demultiplexers, suitable for wavelength division multiplexing applications. In this paper we proposed an 8-channel optical demultiplexer based on photonic crystal ring resonator. For performing wavelength selection task we used eight ring resonators. The resonance wavelength of the ring resonators depends on the dimensions of the ring core, therefore we choose eight different values for the lattice constant of the ring resonators core section. The average channel spacing of the structure is about 3 nm the transmission efficiency in most of the channels is equal or more than 99 % except in one channels whose transmission efficiency is 85 %.