Title :
Silicon photonic integrated components for add, drop, and VOA in a 4-channel data-center network
Author :
Aguinaldo, R. ; Grant, H. ; Derose, C. ; Trotter, D. ; Pomerene, A. ; Starbuck, A. ; Lentine, A. ; Mookherjea, S.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
We design and demonstrate a compact silicon photonic chip (1.30 mm x 0.52 mm) that integrates electrically-tunable 4-channel add, drop and power control functionalities for a 24x10 Gbit/s WDM data-center network with low power consumption.
Keywords :
computer centres; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; low-power electronics; silicon; wavelength division multiplexing; Si; VOA; WDM data-center network; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; low power consumption; photonic chip; photonic integrated components; power control; size 0.52 mm; size 1.30 mm; Optical attenuators; Optical device fabrication; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical packet switching;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.7092976
