Title :
4×4 strictly non-blocking optical switch fabric based on cascaded multimode interferometers
Author :
Zuxiang Li ; Linjie Zhou ; Liangjun Lu ; Jianping Chen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate a 4×4 strictly non-blocking silicon thermo-optic (TO) switch fabric consisting of three stages of tunable generalized Mach-Zehnder interferometers. Measurements show that the worst crosstalk of all switching states is -7.16 dB. The average TO switching power consumption is 104.84 mW.
Keywords :
crosstalk; interferometers; optical switches; TO switch fabric; cascaded multimode interferometers; crosstalk; nonblocking optical switch fabric; nonblocking silicon thermooptic; switching power consumption; tunable generalized Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Crosstalk; Optical fiber communication; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Propagation losses; Silicon; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Multimode interference (MMI); Optical switches; Silicon photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2015 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
DOI :
10.1109/ICOCN.2015.7203601
