Validation of the Building-Block-Based Approach for the Design of Photonic Integrated Circuits

Optical Backplane Based on Ring-Resonators: Scalability and Performance Analysis for 10 Gb/s OOK-NRZ

“…Once each RR is designed (i.e., setting its physical parameters on the basis of the target filter-function physic [8]), we have used the Advanced Simulator for Photonic Integrated Circuits (ASPIC) [9,10] to calculate the transfer function of the backplane. Figure 4 shows the transfer function of a certain TX-RX pair from the architecture shown in Figure 2 with S = 4 planes and N/S = 8 TX/RX per plane.…”

Integrated design for integrated photonics: from the physical to the circuit level and back

“…Silicon photonic circuits will, for most applications, require complex control circuitry, and at that point electronic-photonic codesign becomes a necessity, whether the photonic and electronic circuits are collocated on the same die or on separate chips. Electronic design frameworks rely very strongly on parametric building blocks (PCells), a concept which has also been introduced in photonic design environments 13,15 We present IPKISS, 16, 17 a parametric design framework for photonic integrated circuits. 16 It is a componentcentric framework which allows the designer to perform several design and simulation activities from within the same component library, and generate different output based on the same component definition.…”

Signal processing subsystems for optical interconnects

“…Most of the devices have been designed at the circuit level, exploiting the new paradigm of generic foundries and building blocks libraries [7]. Devices were realized at the James Watt Nanofabrication Center of the Glasgow University.…”