• DocumentCode
    1792485
  • Title

    Characterization of a silicon-photonic wideband switch in UCSD´s MORDIA ring network

  • Author

    Aguinaldo, Ryan ; Forencich, Alex ; DeRose, Christopher ; Lentine, Anthony ; Starbuck, Andrew ; Fainman, Yeshaiahu ; Porter, George ; Papen, George ; Mookherjea, Shayan

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    4-7 May 2014
  • Firstpage
    102
  • Lastpage
    103
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate and investigate concurrent switching of twenty 10-Gbps channels using a silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer switching structure with low on-state loss, low power, and microsecond-scale switching time.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical interconnections; optical losses; optical switches; silicon; Si; UCSD MORDIA ring network; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; concurrent switching; microsecond-scale switching time; on-state loss; silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer switching structure; silicon-photonic wideband switch characterization; Heating; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; Optical interferometry; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Switching circuits;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Interconnects Conference, 2014 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-2467-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OIC.2014.6886100
  • Filename
    6886100