HYBRID SILICON MICRORING OPTICAL SWITCH

Abstract

This thesis reports the effects of parametric variations of hybrid silicon microring resonator for optical switching applications. Microring Resonator optical switch is a Silicon on Insulator (SOI) photonics contrivance utilized for developing photonic switch where waveguides are of Silicon with Silicon-diOxide substrate. It is an attempt for increasing the extinction ratio contrast of Amorphous and Crystalline GST cell transmission when placed in Microring resonating structure. To obtain the desired goal variation of certain parameters in the structure like radius, gap GST position and length was performed and observed its effects on transmission ratio. Summarization of results and analysis has led to categorization sensitive and non-sensitive parameters