Title :
Non-blocking wavelength-routed 4×4 silicon optical router for on-chip photonics networks
Author :
Hu, Ting ; Yu, Ping ; Qiu, Chen ; Wang, Wanjun ; Qiu, Huiye ; Shen, Ao ; Jiang, Xiaoqing ; Yang, Mei ; Yang, Jianyi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China
Abstract :
A non-blocking 4×4 optical router based on silicon microring resonators is reported. Thirteen operating states are presented and 12 I/O possible routing paths are verified with the worst crosstalk of -21.56 dB.
Keywords :
micro-optics; network routing; network-on-chip; optical crosstalk; optical interconnections; optical resonators; silicon; Si; crosstalk; on-chip photonics networks; routing paths; silicon microring resonators; silicon optical router; Adaptive optics; Crosstalk; Electrooptical waveguides; Optical crosstalk; Optical device fabrication; Optical resonators; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Interconnects Conference, 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Santa Fe, NM
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1620-1
DOI :
10.1109/OIC.2012.6224425