Photonic Crystal Circuitry and its Impact on Wireless Networks

Abstract

Wireless networks are considered a hot topic in dealing with data without need to routers or other infrastructures. Each node has a part of routing responsibility. This result to a huge of data in forwarding to other nodes and will need high speed to process. Photonic crystal applications come to solve the necessity for such speed with small circuitry area. One of the main factors that affect their operation is the structure topology. Ring resonator, cavity based structures, self-collimation, and waveguide approaches are some of these topologies. OR gate is proposed in this paper to be simulated and evaluated as one of the basic element block. This design is built on a square lattice- photonic crystal construction on a ring resonator basis. Rotation of 90, 180, and 270 degrees are applied in clockwise direction. Sensitivity analysis, and carefully rod locations are considered to obtain remarkable performance. Minimum size and highly data rate are two characteristics that discriminates this design. The minimum size of 51.48 μm2 is obtained. The bit rates of 1.35, 6.35, 3.2, and 2.53 Tbs are calculated with the 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees, respectively. Comparison table is well organized for the recently published photonic crystal OR-gate that based on ring resonator. Finite difference time domain and Plan wave expansion method are used to analyze the proposed structure at 1.55μm wavelength to verify OR- gate operation.