A highly scalable fully non-blocking silicon photonic switch fabric
| Autor: | Nikolova, Dessislava, Calhoun, David M., Liu, Yang, Rumley, Sebastien, Novack, Ari, Baehr-Jones, Tom, Hochberg, Michael, Bergman, Keren |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: | |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Large port count spatial optical switches will facilitate flexible and energy efficient data movement in future data communications systems, especially if they are capable of nanosecond-order reconfiguration times. In this work, we demonstrate an 8x8 microring-based silicon photonic switch with software controlled switching. The proposed switch architecture is modular as it assembles multiple identical components with multiplexing/demultiplexing functionalities. The switch is fully non-blocking, has path independent insertion loss, low crosstalk and is straightforward to control. A scalability analysis shows that this architecture can scale to very large port counts. This work represents the first demonstration of real-time firmware controlled switching with silicon photonics devices integrated at the chip scale. Comment: 25 pages, 8 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
| Externí odkaz: |
|