• DocumentCode
    3699659
  • Title

    4?4 Si-wire optical path switch with off-chip polarization diversity

  • Author

    Ken Tanizawa;Keijiro Suzuki;Satoshi Suda;Guangwei Cong;Kiyo Ishii;Junya Kurumida;Kazuhiro Ikeda;Shu Namiki;Hitoshi Kawashima

  • Author_Institution
    Network Photonics Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a polarization diversity scheme using fiber polarization splitters for 4×4 Si-wire optical switch. Path-independent on-chip loss of 4.8±0.5 dB and crosstalk of less than -30 dB are achieved with PDL below 1 dB.
  • Keywords
    "Optical switches","Optical fiber networks","Optical fiber polarization","Optical polarization"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2166-8892
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2015.7340095
  • Filename
    7340095