Title :
Chip-scale optical cross-connect for WDM LAN nodes with high extinction ratio reconfiguration
Author :
Mathew J. Zablocki;Dennis W. Prather;Ahmed S. Sharkawy
Author_Institution :
EM Photonics, Inc., Lumilant, Inc., 51 East Main Street, Newark, DE, United States of America
Abstract :
We presented a reconfigurable bi-directional WDM optical switch matrix and its potential role in a cross-cube architecture. The presented optical switch matrices have shown extinction ratios greater than 40 dB, propagation losses of less than 1 dB/cm and reconfigurations times of less than 100 ns with a footprint of less than 0.3 cm2.
Keywords :
"Optical switches","Aerospace electronics","Optical fibers","Wavelength division multiplexing","Photonics","Network topology"
Conference_Titel :
Avionics and Vehicle Fiber-Optics and Photonics Conference (AVFOP), 2015 IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/AVFOP.2015.7356622
