Title :
Characterization of electrically-driven silicon photonic Mach-Zehnder switches
Author :
Aguinaldo, Ryan ; Porter, George ; Papen, George ; Fainman, Yeshaiahu ; Mookherjea, Shayan
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate a new method to extract the electronic carrier-induced loss and coupling coefficients of modern thermo-optic and electro-optic silicon Mach-Zehnder interferometer based 2x2 switches (Sandia, IBM and Kotura-Oracle) from the transmission spectra.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical switches; optical losses; silicon; thermo-optical devices; Si; coupling coefficients; electrically-driven silicon photonic Mach-Zehnder switches; electronic carrier-induced loss; electrooptic silicon; thermooptic silicon; transmission spectra; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical switches; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
