Title :
Broadband 4×4 non-blocking optical switch fabric based on Mach-Zehnder interferometers
Author :
Linjie Zhou ; Liangjun Lu ; Zuxiang Li ; Jianping Chen
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate a silicon 4×4 non-blocking Benes switch fabric consisting of three stages of tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometers. Measurements show that the insertion loss is around 10 dB and the crosstalk is below -10 dB over a 40 nm wide wavelength range.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; elemental semiconductors; optical crosstalk; optical losses; optical switches; silicon; Si; broadband 4x4 nonblocking optical switch fabric; crosstalk; insertion loss; silicon Benes switch fabric; tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Crosstalk; Insertion loss; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Tuning; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Optical switches; Silicon photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2014 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Suzhou
DOI :
10.1109/ICOCN.2014.6987092
