Title :
The feasibility of building a 64×64 port count SOA-based optical switch
Author :
Qixiang Cheng;Minsheng Ding;Adrian Wonfor;Jinlong Wei;Richard V. Penty;Ian H. White
Author_Institution :
Centre for Photonic Systems, Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA, United Kingdom
Abstract :
This paper for the first time demonstrates the feasibility of building a monolithically-integrated 64 × 64 SOA-based optical switch based on an modular architecture experimentally tested in an 8 × 8 SOA switch. Using parameters derived from experiment, simulation results show that such a 64 × 64 SOA switch has a power penalty as low as 1 dB.
Keywords :
"Optical switches","Semiconductor optical amplifiers","Optical losses","Switching circuits","Photonics"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics in Switching (PS), 2015 International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/PS.2015.7328999
