Programmable wavelength locking and routing in a silicon-photonic interconnection network implementation

Author

Calhoun, David M. ; Qi Li ; Browning, Colm ; Abrams, Nathan C. ; Yang Liu ; Ran Ding ; Barry, Liam P. ; Baehr-Jones, Tom ; Hochberg, Michael ; Bergman, Keren

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

22-26 March 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A programmable control system for wavelength locking WDM channels on microring arrays is used to demonstrate arbitrary demultiplexing and selection of fast switchable wavelengths. Successful data measurements verify the functionality within an interconnection network implementation.

Keywords

demultiplexing; elemental semiconductors; micro-optics; optical communication; optical interconnections; programmable controllers; silicon; telecommunication network routing; wavelength division multiplexing; Si; arbitrary demultiplexing; data measurements; fast switchable wavelengths; microring arrays; programmable control system; programmable wavelength locking; programmable wavelength routing; silicon-photonic interconnection network; wavelength locking WDM channels; Optical interconnections; Optical resonators; Optical switches; Routing; Silicon photonics; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Type

conf

Filename

7121826