Printing: This poster is 48” wide by 36” high. It’s designed to be printed on a large-format printer. Customizing the Content: The placeholders in this poster are formatted for you. Type in the placeholders to add text, or click an icon to add a table, chart, SmartArt graphic, picture or multimedia file. To add or remove bullet points from text, click the Bullets button on the Home tab. If you need more placeholders for titles, content or body text, make a copy of what you need and drag it into place. PowerPoint’s Smart Guides will help you align it with everything else. Want to use your own pictures instead of ours? No problem! Just click a picture, press the Delete key, then click the icon to add your picture. OptiKit: An Open Source Kit for Simulation of On-Chip Optical Components Eldhose Peter, Smruti R. Sarangi,IIT Delhi Problem This paper presents the design of OptiKit – an open source kit for simulating the passive optical devices in embedded photonics based chips using the Synopsys RSoft Simulator. Reference designs Thumb rules for modifying the designs Components Parallel Waveguides MMI (Multi-mode interference coupler) Devices Y Junctions Directional Couplers Waveguide Bends Microring Resonators Optical Communication System Optical Simulation Materials Silicon On Insulator(SOI) Rib waveguide Simulation Type Beamprop Fullwave Output Physical structure Optical loss Optical signal intensity Directional Coupler Y Junction MMI Microring Resonator Open Source Distribution References M. Haurylau, G. Chen, H. Chen, J. Zhang, N. A. Nelson, D. H. Albonesi, E. G. Friedman, and P. M. Fauchet, “On-chip Optical Interconnect Roadmap: Challenges and Critical Directions,” Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 1699–1705, D. Vantrease, R. Schreiber, M. Monchiero, M. McLaren, N. P. Jouppi, M. Fiorentino, A. Davis, N. Binkert, R. G. Beausoleil, and J. H. Ahn, “Corona: System Implications of Emerging Nanophotonic Technology,” ser. ISCA ’08. IEEE Computer Society, 2008, pp. 153–164. N. Kirman, M. Kirman, R. K. Dokania, J. F. Martinez, A. B. Apsel, M. A. Watkins, and D. H. lbonesi, “Leveraging Optical Technology in Future Bus-based Chip Multiprocessors,” ser. MICRO 39, 2006, pp. 492–503. P. Trinh, S. Yegnanarayanan, F. Coppinger, and B. JalaIi, “Compact multimode interference couplers in silicon-on-insulator technology,” in Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO ’97., Summaries of Papers Presented at the Conference, 1997, p D. Dai and S. He, “Analysis of characteristics of bent rib waveguides,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 113–121, Jan W. Bogaerts, P. De Heyn, T. Van Vaerenbergh, K. De Vos, S. Kumar Selvaraja, T. Claes, P. Dumon, P. Bienstman, D. Van Thourhout, and R. Baets, “Silicon microring resonators,” Laser & Photonics Reviews, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 47–73, Achieve optical broadcast MMI Beam splitter Y Junction Optical switch/ modulator Microring Resonator Beam splitter Directional Coupler Introduced optical components to the EDA community Explained the properties of these components using Synopsys RSoft simulations Proposed thumb rules to modify the properties of these components The signal in one waveguide couples with the adjacent waveguide Very low optical loss Percentage of the signal that gets coupled depends on the length of the parallel waveguide and the separation between these waveguides. Uses: Beam splitter, signal transfer mechanism across waveguides One waveguide splits into two Split percentage depends on the split angle and the width of the waveguide. Uses: Beam splitter, optical multiplexer Multimode Interference coupler Splits an optical signal into N parts The signal splits because of: diffraction, reflection off the walls and interference of the reflected waves Needs to be designed delicately, and accurately. Uses: Beam splitter, optical multiplexer Structure: A circular waveguide (ring) is placed between two straight waveguides The optical signal first gets coupled to the ring, and then to the other waveguide. (a.k.a resonance) We can change the refractive index of the ring by applying an electric charge. (moves it out of resonance) Uses: (de)modulator, optical switch Contributions