• DocumentCode
    1772215
  • Title

    Characterization of electrically-driven silicon photonic Mach-Zehnder switches

  • Author

    Aguinaldo, Ryan ; Porter, George ; Papen, George ; Fainman, Yeshaiahu ; Mookherjea, Shayan

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a new method to extract the electronic carrier-induced loss and coupling coefficients of modern thermo-optic and electro-optic silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer based 2x2 switches (Sandia, IBM and Kotura-Oracle) from the transmission spectra.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical switches; optical losses; silicon; thermo-optical devices; Si; coupling coefficients; electrically-driven silicon photonic Mach-Zehnder switches; electronic carrier-induced loss; electrooptic silicon; thermooptic silicon; transmission spectra; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical switches; Wavelength measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989829