Jianxun HONG^1,2* and Yasufumi ENAMI¹

¹Research Institute for Nanodevice and Bio Systems, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8527, Japan
²School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China

(Received June 15, 2010; Revised September 5, 2010; Accepted September 8, 2010)

A time domain optical demultiplexer using electrooptic microring resonator is proposed. The switching window with pico-second order width is generated by using a sinusoidal electrical control voltage to shift the refractive index of the material. The modulation characteristics and switching window of the microring resonator are studied. The dependences of the width and extinction ratio of the switching window on the control voltage are analyzed. The demultiplexing performance of a 40–10 Gbps system is evaluated by numerical simulation technology. Results show that switching windows with required width and extinction ratio can be generated.

Key words: electrooptic polymer, microring resonator, optical time domain demultiplexing, switching window

^*E-mail address: jianxunhong@yahoo.com.cn