Hybrid Integrated Cascaded 2-bit Electrooptic Digital Optical Switches (DOSs)

Author

Yuan, Wei ; Kim, Seongku ; Fetterman, Harold R. ; Steier, William H. ; Jin, Danliang ; Dinu, Raluca

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA

Volume

19

Issue

7

fYear

2007

fDate

4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

519

Lastpage

521

Abstract

Hybrid integrated cascaded 1 times 4 electrooptic (EO) polymeric digital optical switches (DOSs) are proposed and demonstrated. The hybrid integration of passive polymer on the same chip with EO polymer can lower the overall device loss without affecting the EO effects. The cascaded DOS can be controlled by only two voltage signal sources without bias stabling mechanism. The device can be operated as a 2-bit reconfigurable switch. The switching voltage is around 15 V for single arm driving with reasonable extinction ratio (9~12 dB) and the loss is improved by ~2.5 dB. This device is ideal for implementing variable optical delay network

Keywords

electro-optical effects; electro-optical switches; integrated optics; optical losses; optical polymers; 15 V; 2 bit; 2-bit reconfigurable switch; cascaded optical switches; device loss; digital optical switches; electrooptic effects; electrooptic polymer; electrooptic switches; extinction ratio; hybrid integration; passive polymer; polymeric optical switches; Communication switching; Electrooptic devices; Electrooptic effects; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Optical losses; Optical polymers; Optical signal processing; Optical switches; Voltage; Digital optic switch; electrooptic (EO) polymer; electrooptic (EO) switch; hybrid integration;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.893825

Filename

4126576