Author/Authors :
L.، Gomez-Chova, نويسنده , , M.، Cappuzzo, نويسنده , , E.، Laskowski, نويسنده , , M.P.، Earnshaw, نويسنده , , J.B.D.، Soole, نويسنده , , A.، Paunescu, نويسنده ,
Abstract :
We report an 8*8 strictly nonblocking optical cross connect (OXC) using multimode imaging (MMI)-based generalized Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometers realized in the silica-on-silicon planar waveguide system. Employing a routerselector architecture, this MMI-MZ OXC design results in a significantly smaller device than conventional directional-coupler based implementations. An average insertion loss of 6 dB and crosstalk of -34 dB, is demonstrated for the 8*8 OXC.
