Análise e desempenho de um acoplador baseado em cristal fotônico dopado com érbio

Abstract

In this dissertation, the concepts of photonic crystal were used to design an Erbium-doped photonic crystal coupler in order to verify the switching performance for the bar and cross states of the doped device in relation to the non-doped device. The Erbium-doped Photonic crystal coupler used the non-linear resonance caused by the excitation of the erbium ions located in the central row of a Photonic Crystal directional coupler. Such excitation causes the transition of the erbium ions from the ground state to the metastable state by amplifying the signal when the photons absorb the light emitted by the signal. The simulations occurred in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software, which uses the Finite Element Method (FEM). A comparative analysis was performed between a directional coupler of photon crystal doped with erbium and another non-doped. It was verified the switching performance of both from the normalized frequencies variation and it was verified that the doped coupler was able to operate in the barrra and cross states with the higher frequency spectrum.