Scalable Nonblocking 4 x 4 Silicon Optical Switch Based on Dual-Microring Resonators

被引:4
作者
Guo, Xiaoqing [1 ,2 ]
Wang, Gencheng [3 ]
Dai, Tingge [4 ]
Chen, Bei [1 ,2 ]
Wang, Yuehai [1 ,2 ]
Yu, Hui [1 ,2 ]
Li, Zhenhui [5 ]
Yang, Jianyi [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Zhejiang Univ, Coll Informat Sci & Elect Engn, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
[2] Zhejiang Univ, Interdisciplinary Ctr Quantum Informat, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
[3] Huawei Technol Co Ltd, Wuhan 430015, Hubei, Peoples R China
[4] Zhejiang Univ, Ningbo Inst Technol, Ningbo 315100, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
[5] Zhejiang Univ, Adv Technol Inst, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
基金
国家重点研发计划;
关键词
Optical switches; integrated optics; microring resonators; PHOTONIC NETWORK; ON-CHIP; COMPACT; RING;
D O I
10.1109/LPT.2019.2896439
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We demonstrate a reconfigurable 4 x 4 silicon optical switch network by using an architecture of Half-Crossbar. It has the advantage of flexible scalability and utilizes fewer elements. The proposed switch is composed of six dual-microring resonators tuned by the thermo-optic effect. The footprint is only 176 mu m x 632 mu m. At the wavelength of 1557 nm, the average insertion loss is smaller than 2.5 dB according to the results of all 24 switching states. Its rising response time is about 4.9 mu s. The experiment verified the optical data transmission ability of the proposed switch network.
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页码:397 / 400
页数:4
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