Efficient 1×2, 1×4, 1×8 and 1×16 photonic crystal filters/power splitters based ring resonators for modern passive optical network PON

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new architecture of [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] optical filter/power splitters operating around 1.55[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m, based on a CPs 2D photonic crystal ring resonator for Modern Passive Optical Network (PON). This type of functionality, filtering/power splitting is introduced in this work for the first-time according literature. The designed device consists of a square array of GaAs dielectric rods immersed in air. The structure is designed and successfully simulated by the finite element method using the software COMSOL Multiphysics. From the results obtained, we note that the beam is evenly distributed for all output ports with total efficient transmissions of about 99.6%, 98.8%, 97.1% and 96.8% and low insertion losses of about 0.017, 0.052, 0.128, and −0.14[Formula: see text]dB for the [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] filter power splitter successively.