Excellent Quality Factor Ultra-Compact Optical Communication Filter on Ring-Shaped Cavity

In this paper, we propose a high-quality factor (QF) ultra-compact structure for designing all optical filter based on two dimensional (2D) photonic crystals that can operate in third communication window range (1550 nm). The simulation results calculated by using 2D finite difference time domain (FDTD) method and photonic band gap (PBG) region are calculated by plane wave expansion (PWE) method. The average transmission efficiency, average QF and optical full width at half maximum (FWHM) bandwidth more than 95 %, 4300 and 0.4 nm obtained, respectively. The value of QF for the proposed structure is a major QF for ring resonator-based filters. We studied the effect of changing the air background to liquid crystal (LC) surrounding the dielectric rods. Results showed that by increasing LC refractive index (n) peak of wavelengths red shifted. The footprint of proposed filter is 160 μm² which make the proposed structure promising candidate for optical integrated circuits.