Wireless network interconnect concept based on dielectric ring resonators

This paper reviews different optical interconnect architectures, one of the leading technologies, which is poised to revolutionize the computing technology with its low loss and notable high bandwidth. We focus on ring resonator based structures and discuss the improvements of different proposed interconnects in the key aspects like power loss. We propose adopting these architectures to design WLAN components. The operation of a 2×2 micro-ring resonator based optical switch is simulated at the wavelength of 1.98 micrometer. The transmission response of a band pass filter for 2.4 GHz frequency range is presented. The architecture of a 2×2 switch for this frequency range is adopted from optical domain, which has the potential of being the basic building block for WLAN devices and can be generalized to microwave interconnects. The transition loss of both optical and RF components are considered.