Hitless-Reconfigurable and Bandwidth-Scalable Silicon Photonic Circuits for Telecom and Interconnect Applications

Author

Popovic, Milos A. ; Barwicz, Tymon ; Dahlem, Marcus S. ; Gan, Fuwan ; Holzwarth, Charles W ; Rakich, Peter T. ; Watts, Michael R. ; Smith, Henry I ; Kartner, Franz X. ; Ippen, Erich P

Author_Institution

Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2008

fDate

24-28 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We describe silicon microring-resonator-based microphotonic circuits that support complete (amplitude and phase) disabling of resonant states, enabling novel capabilities: truly- hitless switching/tuning of high-order, telecom-grade channel add-drop filters, dispersionless FSR multiplication, and "hot-swapping" of photonic subsystems.

Keywords

integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; optical communication equipment; optical filters; optical interconnections; silicon; bandwidth-scalable silicon photonic circuits; dispersionless FSR multiplication; hitless-reconfigurable circuits; interconnect application; microphotonic circuits; silicon microring-resonator; telecom-grade channel add-drop filters; truly-hitless switching; Dispersion; Integrated circuit interconnections; Interferometers; Optical filters; Optical resonators; RLC circuits; Resonance; Resonator filters; Silicon; Telecommunications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-856-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2008.4528597

Filename

4528597