Broadband Silicon Photonic Electrooptic Switch for Photonic Interconnection Networks

Author

Biberman, Aleksandr ; Lira, Hugo L R ; Padmaraju, Kishore ; Ophir, Noam ; Chan, Johnnie ; Lipson, Michal ; Bergman, Keren

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

Volume

23

Issue

8

fYear

2011

fDate

4/15/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

504

Lastpage

506

Abstract

We present a silicon photonic microring resonator electrooptic switch, demonstrate error-free switching of single-channel data rates up to 40 Gb/s, and characterize the device using bit-error-rate and power penalty metrics. We experimentally verify penalty-free switching of single-channel data rates up to 10 Gb/s, and low-penalty switching up to 40 Gb/s, firmly establishing the feasibility of this switch for high-performance photonic networks-on-chip.

Keywords

electro-optical switches; elemental semiconductors; error statistics; micro-optics; multiprocessor interconnection networks; optical interconnections; silicon; Si; bit-error-rate; broadband silicon photonic electrooptic switch; microring resonator electrooptic switch; networks-on-chip; photonic interconnection networks; power penalty; Electrooptical waveguides; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Optical switches; Photonics; Silicon; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; nanophotonics; optical resonators; optical switches; photonic integrated circuits;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2112763

Filename

5710961