High-performance all-optical silicon microswitch
- 8 July 2004
- journal article
- Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters
- Vol. 40 (14) , 862-863
- https://doi.org/10.1049/el:20045179
Abstract
An integrated micron-size all-optical Si switch capable of 94.7 GHz operation frequency is presented. The device consists of a microring resonator formed by Si/SiO2 slot-waveguides with a low-index nonlinear optical material in the slot region. Strong optical confinement in the slot permits an achievement of low switching power of 6.2 mW.Keywords
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