• DocumentCode
    2303331
  • Title

    Comparison of ring resonator and Mach-Zehnder photonic switches integrated with digital CMOS drivers

  • Author

    Lee, B.G. ; Green, W.M.J. ; Van Campenhout, J. ; Schow, C.L. ; Rylyakov, A.V. ; Assefa, S. ; Yang, M. ; Rosenberg, J. ; Kash, J.A. ; Vlasov, Y.A.

  • Author_Institution
    T.J. Watson Res. Center, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    7-11 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    327
  • Lastpage
    328
  • Abstract
    We report a low-power silicon photonic ring-resonator switch integrated with a CMOS driver that achieves sub 3.5-ns transition times, below -20-dB crosstalk, and ~1-mW combined switch and driver power consumption. Results are compared to non-resonant Mach-Zehnder based switches.
  • Keywords
    CMOS digital integrated circuits; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical crosstalk; optical resonators; optical switches; power consumption; silicon; Mach-Zehnder photonic switches; Si; cross-talk; integrated digital CMOS drivers; low-power silicon photonic ring-resonator switch; power consumption;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
  • Conference_Location
    Denver, CO
  • ISSN
    -
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5368-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    -
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698892
  • Filename
    5698892