Broadband hitless silicon electro-optic switch for on-chip optical networks
- 23 November 2009
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Optics Express
- Vol. 17 (25) , 22271-22280
- https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.17.022271
Abstract
We report on the demonstration of a broadband (60 GHz), spectrally hitless, compact (20 µm x 40 µm), fast (7 ns) electro-optical switch. The device is composed of two coupled resonant cavities, each with an independently addressable PIN diode. This topology enables operation of the switch without perturbing adjacent channels in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system.Keywords
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