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
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