INTERCONNECT: Enabling time and frequency domain simulation of photonic integrated circuits with microring modulators
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INTERCONNECT: Enabling time and frequency domain simulation of photonic integrated circuits with microring modulators
Because of their compact footprint and potential for low drive-voltages, microring resonator modulators have attracted significant scientific and technological interest in recent years. This is especially true for silicon photonics [1], where passive silicon waveguide structures have shown an unprecedented reduction in footprint, including wavelength selective devices such as microring resonators. The INTERCONNECT [2] element library contains different elements that allows for building ring modulators as a composition of different primitives, such as phase shifters, waveguides and couplers. This composition of primitive elements or compound element offers tremendous flexibility to easily define new compact models using arbitrarily complex modulator sub-circuits. The INTERCONNECT element library also includes a ring modulator primitive element, facilitating the process of designing large scale photonic integrated circuits, where a compound element can be replaced by a single primitive element.
