Title :
4?4 Si-wire optical path switch with off-chip polarization diversity
Author :
Ken Tanizawa;Keijiro Suzuki;Satoshi Suda;Guangwei Cong;Kiyo Ishii;Junya Kurumida;Kazuhiro Ikeda;Shu Namiki;Hitoshi Kawashima
Author_Institution :
Network Photonics Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
fDate :
6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We demonstrate a polarization diversity scheme using fiber polarization splitters for 4×4 Si-wire optical switch. Path-independent on-chip loss of 4.8±0.5 dB and crosstalk of less than -30 dB are achieved with PDL below 1 dB.
Keywords :
"Optical switches","Optical fiber networks","Optical fiber polarization","Optical polarization"
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8892
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2015.7340095
