New version of seven wavelengths demultiplexer based on the microcavities in a two-dimensional photonic crystal

A new two dimensional photonic crystal demultiplexer of wavelength (WDM) is designed by exploiting two Fabry-Perot reflectors at the end of the bus waveguides. The results show that the light with different wavelengths can be successfully filtered to different ports by setting different radius of the center defect rods in the drop waveguides and high drop efficiency can be achieved by means of reflection feedbacks. The proposed filter has a cross section equal to 9.7 mu m x 5.8 mu m. In the designed filter, an improvement of the number of channels has been achieved. The normalized transmission spectra of this component have been studied using finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The important parameters consider for this studies are radius of rods used in Fabry-Perot reflectors, and radius of center defect rods in the drop waveguides. The demultiplexer we designed can easily separate the light with seven different wavelengths simultaneously. The scope of this paper lies on demultiplexer for communication systems around 1.55-mu m wavelength. (C) 2014 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.