Design for Ultra-compact High-Speed Semiconductor Photonic Switch by High-Δ Structures and Bend Waveguides for Large-Scale Switching Fabric

Author

Ueda, Yuta ; Ishikawa, Tomohiro ; Nakamura, Shinichi ; Utaka, Katsuyuki

Author_Institution

Waseda Univ., Tokyo

fYear

2007

fDate

19-22 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

39

Lastpage

40

Abstract

We investigate the structural design for size reduction of a high-speed semiconductor multi-mode interference photonic switch with Mach-Zehnder interferometer. As a result, it is shown that the device size can be drastically reduced by introducing high-Δ waveguide structure and bend waveguides, and high density of switch Straight Port large as ˜ 200 elements /mm² can be expected.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; optical switches; optical waveguides; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; bend waveguides; high-speed semiconductor multimode interference photonic switch; large-scale switching fabric; structural design; ultracompact high-speed semiconductor photonic switch; Energy consumption; Fabrics; Interference; Large-scale systems; Optical packet switching; Optical waveguides; Phase modulation; Power semiconductor switches; Refractive index; Semiconductor waveguides; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; bend waveguide; high-Δ waveguide; multimode interference (MMI); semiconductor photonic switch;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics in Switching, 2007

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-1122-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PS.2007.4300733

Filename

4300733