Lossless Operation of an 8 × 8 SiPh/InP Hybrid Optical Switch
| Autor: | Valery Tolstikhin, Kin-Wai Leong, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, Rubana Bahar Priti, Hassan Rahbardar Mojaver, Ajaypal Singh Dhillon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Optical amplifier
Materials science Silicon photonics business.industry 02 engineering and technology 01 natural sciences 7. Clean energy Optical switch Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials 010309 optics Interferometry chemistry.chemical_compound 020210 optoelectronics & photonics chemistry Net gain 0103 physical sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Banyan switch Indium phosphide Optoelectronics Insertion loss Electrical and Electronic Engineering business |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 32:667-670 |
| ISSN: | 1941-0174 1041-1135 |
| DOI: | 10.1109/lpt.2020.2991360 |
| Popis: | We design a lossless $8 \times 8$ Silicon Photonics (SiPh)/Indium Phosphide (InP) hybrid optical switch. The design consists of an 8-channel InP gain block for coupling to an $8 \times 8$ thermally tuned Mach-Zehnder interferometer-based Banyan switch in a passive SiPh platform. The gain block is an array of eight $1300~\mu \text{m}$ -long semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). We experimentally verified the InP gain block while the SiPh chip is accounted by replacing it with a loss component. The SOA in line with the optical signal path provides a net gain larger than 25 dB to compensate for the inherently large insertion loss of the $8 \times 8$ SiPh optical switch. The total energy consumption of the hybrid optical switch in lossless operation mode is 10.44 pJ/bit at 12.5 Gb/s. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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