A low loss hexagonal six-port optical circulator using silicon photonic crystal.

A 6-port optical circulator using silicon photonic crystals has been designed and proposed in this paper as an essential component of an optical communication system. The proposed 6-port circulator has greater isolation values between the input and isolated ports and lower insertion loss values between the input and output ports. The proposed circulator achieves maximum isolation of 38.7 dB and minimum insertion loss of 0.0029 dB. The proposed designs are extremely useful in the telecommunications industry, wavelength division multiplexing and photonic integrated circuits applications due to their low insertion and high isolations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]