Title :
A nanophotonic 4/spl times/4 wavelength router in silicon-on-insulator
Author :
Dumon, P. ; Bogaerts, W. ; Van Thourhout, D. ; Morthier, G. ; Baets, R. ; Jaenen, P. ; Beckx, S. ; Wouters, J. ; Farrell, T. ; Ryan, N. ; Grivas, E. ; Kyriakis-Bitzaros, E. ; Halkias, G. ; McKenzie, I.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol., Ghent Univ.
Abstract :
We demonstrate a 400times150 mum2 silicon-on-insulator 4times4 arrayed waveguide grating with 3.5 dB insertion loss, fabricated with CMOS technology. The device was pigtailed and used as a wavelength router in a 10 Gb/s reconfigurable optical backplane interconnect
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; arrayed waveguide gratings; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; micro-optics; nanotechnology; optical fibre communication; optical interconnections; optical losses; silicon-on-insulator; telecommunication network routing; 10 Gbit/s; 150 mum; 3.5 dB; 400 mum; CMOS technology; Si-SiO2; arrayed waveguide grating; backplane interconnect; insertion loss; nanophotonic router; reconfigurable optical interconnect; silicon-on-insulator; wavelength router; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Backplanes; CMOS technology; Insertion loss; Optical devices; Optical interconnections; Optical losses; Optical waveguides; Silicon on insulator technology; Wavelength routing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215885
