Title :
Technologies for fast, scalable silicon photonic switches
Author_Institution :
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA
Abstract :
We present fast Mach-Zehnder-based electrooptic silicon photonic switches. We review our latest results on low-insertion-loss and low-crosstalk broadband 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 switches designed and fabricated in IBM´s 90nm photonics-enabled CMOS process. We also highlight the main challenges that need to be addressed in order to enable the scalability of silicon photonics for optical switching.
Keywords :
"Optical switches","Optical crosstalk","Phase shifters","Silicon photonics","Optical device fabrication","Optical waveguides","Optical losses"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics in Switching (PS), 2015 International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/PS.2015.7328966
