Title :
Silicon waveguide wavelength-selective switch for on-chip WDM communications
Author :
Miura, Kengo ; Shoji, Yuya ; Mizumoto, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
A wavelength selective switch composed of microring resonators and MZI-based thermo-optic switches is fabricated in an SOI waveguide. A wavelength-selective transmittance change of 9.7 dB is demonstrated at a wavelength channel of 1.548 μm.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical resonators; optical switches; optical waveguides; silicon-on-insulator; thermo-optical devices; wavelength division multiplexing; MZI-based thermo-optic switches; SOI waveguide; Si; microring resonators; on-chip WDM communications; silicon waveguide wavelength-selective switch; wavelength 1.548 mum; wavelength-selective transmittance change; Optical device fabrication; Optical resonators; Optical switches; Optical waveguides; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358779
