Mach–Zehnder-Based Four-Port Switching Module on SOI

Author

Chen, Weiwei ; Wang, Wanjun ; Gong, Zhao ; Zhou, Qiang ; Jiang, Xiaoqing ; Yang, Jianyi ; Zhou, Haiquan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

Volume

24

Issue

15

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1313

Lastpage

1315

Abstract

In this letter, a Mach-Zehnder-based four-port switching module was designed and fabricated by a 0.8-μm standard commercial complementary metal-oxide semiconductor line. The module is composed of five electro-optic switching elements and can be used to realize nonblocking switching for the duplex interconnection among four ports. The switching elements are electrically driven with a nanosecond response. Full routing functionality of the four-port switching module is demonstrated with crosstalk levels lower than -11.8 dB under a common spectral bandwidth of 40 nm.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical switches; integrated optics; optical crosstalk; silicon-on-insulator; Mach-Zehnder based four-port switching module; SOI; complementary metal oxide semiconductor line; crosstalk levels; duplex interconnection; electro-optic switching elements; full routing functionality; nonblocking switching; silicon-on-insulator; size 0.8 mum; Bandwidth; Crosstalk; Optical crosstalk; Optical switches; Photonics; Silicon; Electro-optic switching module; Mach–Zehnder interferometer; networks-on-chip (NoC); silicon on insulator;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2012.2203117

Filename

6213069