Title :
Design of a current-driven optical gate switch using a Si waveguide and phase-change material
Author :
Kentaro Kato;Hiroyuki Tsuda
Author_Institution :
Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan
Abstract :
We have proposed and designed a current-driven optical gate switch using a Si waveguide and phase-change material. The ON-state loss and the power consumption of the optimized structure are 0.63 dB and 60 mW, respectively.
Keywords :
"Optical switches","Logic gates","Optical waveguides","Phase change materials","Silicon","Power demand","Optical pulses"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2015 11th Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2015.7376067
